Quote of the day
What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?
Herbert Wilf
Born: June 13, 1931
Died: January 7, 2012 (aged 80)
Bio: Herbert Saul Wilf was a mathematician, specializing in combinatorics and graph theory. He was the Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics in Combinatorial Analysis and Computing at the University of Pennsylvania. He wrote numerous books and research papers.
Known for:
- Generatingfunctionology (1990)
- Algorithms and complexity (1986)