Quote of the day
No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.
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







