Quote of the day
His own image... was no longer the reflection of a clumsy, dirty, gray bird, ugly and offensive. He himself was a swan! Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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)






