Quote of the day
Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
Ralph P. Boas Jr.
Born: August 8, 1912
Died: July 25, 1992 (aged 79)
Bio: Ralph Philip Boas Jr. was a mathematician, teacher, and journal editor. He wrote over 200 papers, mainly in the fields of real and complex analysis.
Known for:
- A primer of real functions (1960)
- Invitation to complex analysis (1987)
- Lion hunting & other mathematical pursuits
- Polynomial Expansions of Analytic Functions (1958)
- Entire functions (1954)