Quote of the day
The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.
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)