Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Marston Morse
Born: March 24, 1892
Died: June 22, 1977 (aged 85)
Bio: Harold Calvin Marston Morse was an American mathematician best known for his work on the calculus of variations in the large, a subject where he introduced the technique of differential topology now known as Morse theory.
Known for:
- The calculus of variations in the large (1934)
- Global variational analysis (1976)
- Introduction to analysis in the large (1947)