Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
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