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- From: buyskes@lafcol.lafayette.edu (Steve Buyske)
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- Subject: Well-known people who majored in math (other than mathematicians)
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- Date: 8 Oct 92 19:12:30 GMT
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- Some time ago on this group there was a discussion of well-known
- people who had some kind of math background but weren't known as
- mathematicians. I've had most of the names from that discussion posted
- on more door, and now I'm hoping to add some more. I'm especially
- interested in adding some women to the list.
-
- So the question is, do you know of any well-known people who
- majored in math but aren't known as mathematicians?
-
- Steve Buyske
- buyskes@lafcol.lafayette.edu
- buyskes@lafvax.lafayette.edu
-
- Here's my list::
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- Corazon Aquino, former President of the Phillipines.
- Harry Blackmun, Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court, AB in
- Mathematics at Harvard around 1940.
- Pierre Boulez, composer.
- Clifford Brown, 50's jazz trumpeter.
- Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking
- Glass, and other works.
- David Dinkins, mayor of New York.
- Milton Glasser, head of the American Civil Liberties Union.
- Edmund Husserl, philosopher.
- Michael Jordan (into his junior year).
- John Maynard Keynes, economist. BA in Mathematics, Cambridge .
- Ommar Khayyam, author of The Robaiyat.
- Evelyn Fox Keller, social theorist.
- Emanuel Lasker, chess player.
- Tom Lehrer, songwriter-parodist. Ph.D. in Math. at Harvard
- Huey Lewis (of Huey Lewis and the News).
- J. Pierpont Morgan, the billionaire banker He had enough talent that
- the Harvard math faculty tried to convince him to become a
- professional mathematician.
- Paul Painlev, President of France in the early 20th century.
- David Robinson, basketball star. B.S. in math, Annapolis.
- Frank Ryan, former professional football player and current science-
- technology adviser to Congress. Ph.D. in Math.
- Stephen Sondheim, songwriter.
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn, novelist, degree in math and physics from the
- University of Rostov.
- Laurence H. Tribe, Professor at Harvard Law School, generally regarded
- as one of the most outstanding authorities on Constitutional Law.
- Both an AB and an MA in Math from Harvard circa 1962.
- Leon Trotsky He registered to read Pure Mathematics at Odessa in 1897,
- but imprisonment and exile in Siberia seem to have disturbed his
- concentration.
- Eamon de Valera, first President of the Republic of Ireland.
- Professor of Mathematics at Our Lady of Mercy, Carysfort,
- Blackrock, Ireland.
- Virginia Wade, Wimbledon champion, Math degree from Sussex.
- James Woods, actor.
- Frank Zane, a two-time Mr. Olympia (as in bodybuilding).
- James Moriarty, former Professor of Mathematics, author of The
- Dynamics of an Asteroid, whose essay on the binomial theorem is
- reported to have enjoyed a continental vogue, became the leader
- of the most sinister criminal conspiracy in Victorian England. He
- has been called 'the Napoleon of Crime.'
-