Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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)