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- From: wjh@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (william.j.hery)
- Subject: Re: Well-known people who majored in math (other than mathematicians)
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- Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 22:24:57 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Oct13.222457.11167@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
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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.
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- >Clifford Brown, 50's jazz trumpeter.
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- He was a maht major at Delaware, but did not complete his bachelor's
- degree, opting for professional music instead.
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- Chico Freema, a current jazz saxophonist, did a similar thing at Northwestern
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- >David Dinkins, mayor of New York.
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- Interesting--can anyone give more information on this: what level degree,
- from what school? And the jazz<-->math connection show up, since his son-in-law
- is jazz vibraphonist Jay Hoggard (OK, that's pretty irrelevant here)
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- >Tom Lehrer, songwriter-parodist. Ph.D. in Math. at Harvard
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- I believe he's a mathematician first and a songwriter-parodist second
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- Add:
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- Art Garfunkel, folk-rock inger. BS math CUNY?
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- Bill Hery
-