Quote of the day
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Carl Ludwig Siegel
Born: December 31, 1896
Died: April 4, 1981 (aged 84)
Bio: Carl Ludwig Siegel was a German mathematician specialising in number theory and celestial mechanics. He is known for, amongst other things, his contributions to the Thue Siegel Roth theorem in Diophantine approximation and the Siegel mass formula for quadratic forms.
Known for:
- Lectures on quadratic forms (1971)
- Topics in Complex Function Theory (1969)
- Symplectic Geometry (1943)
- Topics in Celestial Mechanics (1954)