Quote of the day
The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.
G. B. Halsted
Born: November 25, 1853
Died: March 16, 1922 (aged 68)
Bio: George Bruce Halsted, usually cited as G. B. Halsted, was an American mathematician who explored foundations of geometry and introduced non-Euclidean geometry into the United States through his own work and his many important translations.
Known for:
- Synthetic Projective Geometry (1906)
- On the foundation and technic of arithmetic (1912)
- Elementary synthetic geometry (1892)
G. B. Halsted Quotes