Quote of the day
The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.
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)