Mathematician:Frank Nelson Cole

American mathematician famous for finding the factors of the Mersenne number $$M_{67}$$ and hence proving that it is not prime. His demonstration in 1903 of this took the form of a now famous lecture in which he performed the necessary arithmetic without saying a single word.

The American Mathematical Society's Cole Prize was named in his honor.

Nationality
American

History

 * Born: September 20, 1861
 * Died: May 26, 1926

Books and Papers

 * "The Diurnal Variation of Barometric Pressure" (1892).