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.
David Bressoud

Born: March 27, 1950 (age 75)
Bio: David Marius Bressoud is an American mathematician who works in number theory, combinatorics, and special functions. As of 2012 he is DeWitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics at Macalester College and a former President of the Mathematical Association of America.
Known for:
- A Radical Approach to Real Analysis (1994)
- Factorization and Primality Testing (1989)
- Proofs and confirmations (1999)