Quote of the day
From too much love of living,
From hope and fear set free,
We thank with brief thanksgiving
Whatever gods may be
That no life lives for ever,
That dead men rise up never;
That even the weariest river
Winds somewhere safe to sea.
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)






