Quote of the day
A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.
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)







