Quote of the day
A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that 'the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.'
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)