Mathematician:Albert Parry

Mathematician

Russian-born academic and historian who was the translator into English of Boris A. Kordemsky's $1956$ collection Математическая смекалка.

Nationality

Russian, later American

History

• Born: 1901 in Rostov-on-Don, Russia
• 1921: Emigrated to the United States
• 1938: Earned PhD in history at University of Chicago
• Died: 1992 in Los Angeles

Publications

• 1933: Garrets and Pretenders: A History of Bohemianism in America
• 1933: Tattoo: Secrets of a Strange Art as Practised among the Natives of the United States
• 1939: Whistler's Father
• 1966: The New Class Divided: Science and Technology versus Communism
• 1972: Translator into English of The Moscow Puzzles: 359 Mathematical Recreations (edited by Martin Gardner)
• 1973: The Russian Scientist
• 1976: Terrorism: From Robespierre to Arafat

Also known as

Born Victor LeClerc.

Sources

• 1972: Boris A. Kordemsky: The Moscow Puzzles: 359 Mathematical Recreations ... (previous) ... (next): Introduction (Martin Gardner)