biography
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Vandiver, H(arry) S(chultz)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1882–1973)
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| biography:
| Mathematician, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Spending most of his teaching career at the University of Texas, Austin (1924–66), he wrote 173 papers (1900–63), concentrating on number theory, cyclotomy, and commutative algebra, and was best known for his work on Fermat's last theorem. He was also known for his criticism of public education and for his love of classical music. |
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