Quote of the day
My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
Abraham Robinson
Born: October 6, 1918
Died: April 11, 1974 (aged 55)
Bio: Abraham Robinson was a mathematician who is most widely known for development of non-standard analysis, a mathematically rigorous system whereby infinitesimal and infinite numbers were reincorporated into modern mathematics.
Known for:
- Non-standard analysis (1966)
- Complete theories (1956)
- On the metamathematics of algebra (1963)
- Wing theory (1956)







