Quote of the day
One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one will only in time come to hate.
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