Quote of the day
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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