Quote of the day
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
Solomon Lefschetz
Born: September 3, 1884
Died: October 5, 1972 (aged 88)
Bio: Solomon Lefschetz was an American mathematician who did fundamental work on algebraic topology, its applications to algebraic geometry, and the theory of non-linear ordinary differential equations.
Known for:
- Introduction to Topology (1949)
- Differential equations (1957)
- Algebraic geometry (1953)
- Stability of nonlinear control systems (1965)
- Topics in Topology (1942)