Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Michael Atiyah
Born: April 22, 1929
Died: January 11, 2019 (aged 89)
Bio: Sir Michael Francis Atiyah was an English mathematician specializing in geometry.
Known for:
- Introduction to Commutative Algebra (1969)
- K-theory (1960)
- The Geometry and Physics of Knots (1990)
- Elliptic operators and compact groups (1971)