Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Constance Reid

Born: January 3, 1918
Died: October 14, 2010 (aged 92)
Bio: Constance Bowman Reid was the author of several biographies of mathematicians and popular books about mathematics. She received several awards for mathematical exposition.
Known for:
- Hilbert (1970)
- A Long Way from Euclid (1963)
- Julia, a life in mathematics (1996)
- Hilbert-Courant (1970)
- Neyman--from life (1982)