Quote of the day
No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.
Oswald Veblen
Born: June 24, 1880
Died: August 10, 1960 (aged 80)
Bio: Oswald Veblen was an American mathematician, geometer and topologist, whose work found application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity.
Known for:
- The Foundations of Differential Geometry (1932)
- Invariants of Quadratic Differential Forms (1926)
- Projective Geometry (1910)
- Introduction to infinitesimal analysis (1907)