Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Louis Charles Karpinski

Born: August 5, 1878
Died: January 25, 1956 (aged 77)
Bio: Louis Charles Karpinski was an American mathematician born in Rochester, New York to Henry Hermanagle Karpinski from Warsaw, Poland and Mary Louise Engesser from Guebweiler, Alsace. He was educated at Cornell University and in Europe at Strassburg.
Known for:
- The Hindu-Arabic Numerals (1911)
- Unified Mathematics (1918)