Quote of the day
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.
Niels Henrik Abel
Born: August 5, 1802
Died: April 6, 1829 (aged 26)
Bio: Niels Henrik Abel was a Norwegian mathematician who made pioneering contributions in a variety of fields. His most famous single result is the first complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation in radicals.