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.
Vladimir Arnold
Born: June 12, 1937
Died: June 3, 2010 (aged 72)
Bio: Vladimir Igorevich Arnold was a Soviet and Russian mathematician.
Known for:
- Mathematical methods of classical mechanics (1978)
- Lectures on Partial Differential Equations (2004)
- Yesterday and long ago (2007)