Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
John Lighton Synge

Born: March 23, 1897
Died: March 30, 1995 (aged 98)
Bio: John Lighton Synge was an Irish mathematician and physicist.
Known for:
- Principles of Mechanics (1942)
- Tensor calculus (1949)
- The hypercircle in mathematical physics (1957)
- Geometrical mechanics and de Broglie waves (1954)