Quote of the day
Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
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)







