Quote of the day
There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.
Ivars Peterson

Born: December 4, 1948 (age 76)
Bio: Ivars Peterson is an award-winning mathematics writer. He is Director of Publications for Journals and Communications at the Mathematical Association of America.
Known for:
- The mathematical tourist (1988)
- Math Trek: Adventures in the Math Zone (1999)
- Newton's clock (1993)
- Fragments of Infinity (2001)