Quote of the day
My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
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)






