Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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)