Quote of the day
Good authors, too, who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose —
Anything goes.
Percy Alexander MacMahon
Born: September 26, 1854
Died: December 25, 1929 (aged 75)
Bio: Percy Alexander MacMahon was a mathematician, especially noted in connection with the partitions of numbers and enumerative combinatorics.
Known for:
- Combinatory analysis (1915)
- New mathematical pastimes (1921)
- Famous Problems, and Other Monographs