Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Robert Geroch

Born: June 1, 1942 (age 82)
Bio: Robert Geroch is an American theoretical physicist and professor at the University of Chicago. He has worked prominently on general relativity and mathematical physics and has promoted the use of category theory in mathematics and physics. He was the Ph.D.
Known for:
- General relativity from A to B (1978)
- Mathematical physics (1985)
- Perspectives in Computation (2009)
- General Relativity: 1972 Lecture Notes (2013)