Quote of the day
The art of being taught is the art of discovery, as the art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery to take place
Marin Mersenne
Born: September 8, 1588
Died: September 1, 1648 (aged 59)
Bio: Marin Mersenne, Marin Mersennus or le Père Mersenne was a French polymath, whose works touched a wide variety of fields. He is perhaps best known today among mathematicians for Mersenne prime numbers, those which can be written in the form Mn = 2n − 1 for some integer n.