Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Jordan Ellenberg

Born: 1971 (age 54)
Bio: Jordan Stuart Ellenberg is an American mathematician who is a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin Madison. His research involves arithmetic geometry. He received both the A.B. and Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he was a two-time Putnam Fellow.