John Edensor Littlewood

English mathematician.

Born June 9th, 1885 in Rochester. [ref]

Died September 6th, 1977 at 92 years old in Cambridge. [ref]

Occupations
mathematician, university teacher

Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier. Xenophon