Mathematician:Frank Nelson Cole

Mathematician
American mathematician famous for finding the factors of the Mersenne number $M_{67}$. (It had already been demonstrated by in $1876$ that it is not prime, but till this time the factors had not been found.) Cole's demonstration of this in $1903$ took the form of a now famous lecture On The Factorization of Large Numbers in which he performed the necessary arithmetic on a blackboard, delivering the only totally wordless lecture in recorded history.

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

Nationality
American

History

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

Theorems and Definitions

 * Factors of Mersenne Number M67

Books and Papers

 * 1890: The linear functions of a complex variable
 * 1892: The Diurnal Variation of Barometric Pressure
 * 1892: The theory of substitutions and its applications to algebra
 * 1903: On The Factorization of Large Numbers (lecture)
 * 1913: The triad systems of thirteen letters

Notable Quotes

 * Three years of Sundays.