Quote of the day
It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
Edmund Landau
Born: February 14, 1877
Died: February 19, 1938 (aged 61)
Bio: Edmund Georg Hermann Landau was a German mathematician who worked in the fields of number theory and complex analysis.
Known for:
- Foundations of analysis
- Elementary number theory
- Differential and Integral Calculus
- Vorlesungen über Zahlentheorie (1863)
- Grundlagen der Analysis (1930)