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.
Cornelius Lanczos
Born: February 2, 1893
Died: June 25, 1974 (aged 81)
Bio: Cornelius Lanczos was a Jewish Hungarian mathematician and physicist, who was born on February 2, 1893, and died on June 25, 1974.
Known for:
- The variational principles of mechanics (1949)
- Linear Differential Operators (1961)
- Applied analysis (1956)
- Discourse on Fourier series (1966)
- Variatsionnye Printsipy Mehaniki