Jean Cavaillès

French philosopher and mathematician.

Born May 15th, 1903 in Saint-Maixent-l'École. [ref]

Died April 4th, 1944 at 40 years old in Arras (ballistic trauma).

Occupations
mathematician, philosopher, resistance fighter, university teacher

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for. Martin Luther King Jr.