Quote of the day
It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
John B. Conway

Born: September 22, 1939 (age 85)
Bio: John Bligh Conway is an American mathematician. He is currently a professor emeritus at the George Washington University. His specialty is functional analysis, particularly bounded operators on a Hilbert space.
Known for:
- Functions of one complex variable (1973)
- A Course in Functional Analysis (1990)
- A course in operator theory (2000)
- A Course in Point Set Topology (2013)