Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
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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