Quote of the day
It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.
Charles Hermite
Born: December 24, 1822
Died: January 14, 1901 (aged 78)
Bio: Prof Charles Hermite FRS FRSE MIAS was a French mathematician who did research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra.







