Quote of the day
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
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)