Quote of the day
I do things differently, because I don't go by a rule book, because I lead from the heart, not the head, and albeit that's got me into trouble in my work, I understand that.
Louis J. Mordell
Born: January 28, 1888
Died: March 12, 1972 (aged 84)
Bio: Louis Joel Mordell was an American-born British mathematician, known for pioneering research in number theory. He was born in Philadelphia, United States, in a Jewish family of Lithuanian extraction.
Known for:
- Diophantine equations (1969)
- Three Lectures on Fermat's Last Theorem (1921)
- Famous Problems, and Other Monographs







