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 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)