Quote of the day
We must have religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, as with art for art's sake…the beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
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)






