Quote of the day
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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)
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