Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
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