Quote of the day
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
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