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.
E. T. Whittaker

Born: October 24, 1873
Died: March 24, 1956 (aged 82)
Bio: Edmund Taylor Whittaker FRS FRSE was an English mathematician who contributed widely to applied mathematics, mathematical physics and the theory of special functions.
Known for:
- A Course of Modern Analysis (1902)
- The theory of optical instruments (1907)






