Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Dirk Jan Struik

Born: September 30, 1894
Died: October 21, 2000 (aged 106)
Bio: Dirk Jan Struik was a Dutch mathematician and Marxian theoretician who spent most of his life in the United States.
Known for:
- A concise history of mathematics (1948)
- Lectures on classical differential geometry (1950)
- A source book in mathematics, 1200-1800 (1969)
- Yankee science in the making (1948)
- Lectures on Analytic and Projective Geometry (1953)