Quote of the day
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves a number of obscure men who have only remained obscure because their timidity has prevented them from making a first effort.
Raoul Bott

Born: September 24, 1923
Died: December 20, 2005 (aged 82)
Bio: Raoul Bott, ForMemRS was a Hungarian-American mathematician known for numerous basic contributions to geometry in its broad sense. He is best known for his Bott periodicity theorem, the Morse Bott functions which he used in this context, and the Borel Bott Weil theorem.
Known for:
- Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology (1982)
- Graduate Texts in Mathematics
- Raoul Bott Collected Papers (1994)
- Topology and Lie Groups (1994)







