Quote of the day
The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.
Herbert Robbins
Born: January 12, 1915
Died: February 12, 2001 (aged 86)
Bio: Herbert Ellis Robbins was an American mathematician and statistician. He did research in topology, measure theory, statistics, and a variety of other fields.
Known for:
- What Is Mathematics? (1941)
- Selected Papers (1985)
- Herbert Robbins Selected Papers (1985)
- Introduction to Statistics (1975)








