Quote of the day
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
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)