Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Vito Volterra
Born: May 3, 1860
Died: October 11, 1940 (aged 80)
Bio: Vito Volterra was an Italian mathematician and physicist, known for his contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations, being one of the founders of functional analysis.
Known for:
- The theory of permutable functions (1915)