Quote of the day
Only this incident inseparable every custom must have, viz., that it be consonant to reason; for how long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
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)