Quote of the day
I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little inkdrops, And posting it.
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)