Quote of the day
All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
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)