Quote of the day
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
John Wesley Young
Born: November 17, 1879
Died: February 17, 1932 (aged 52)
Bio: John Wesley Young was an American mathematician who, with Oswald Veblen, introduced the axioms of projective geometry, coauthored a 2-volume work on them, and proved the Veblen Young theorem.
Known for:
- Projective Geometry (1910)
- Elementary Mathematical Analysis (1917)