Quote of the day
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
Girard Desargues

Born: March 2, 1591
Died: October 9, 1661 (aged 70)
Bio: Girard Desargues was a French mathematician and engineer, who is considered one of the founders of projective geometry. Desargues' theorem, the Desargues graph, and the crater Desargues on the Moon are named in his honour.