Quote of the day
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
Emil Artin
Born: March 3, 1898
Died: December 20, 1962 (aged 64)
Bio: Emil Artin was an Austrian mathematician. Artin was one of the leading mathematicians of the twentieth century. He is best known for his work on algebraic number theory, contributing largely to class field theory and a new construction of L-functions.
Known for:
- Galois theory (1942)
- The gamma function
- Algebra with Galois Theory
- Algebraic Numbers and Algebraic Functions (1950)
- Exposition by Emil Artin