Quote of the day
But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system
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)






