Quote of the day
The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.
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)