Leonard Eugene Dickson

American mathematician

Leonard Eugene Dickson (22 January 187417 January 1954), often called "L. E. Dickson", was an American mathematician.

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  • It is a lucky thing that newspaper reporters do not attend these meetings. If they did, they would see how little our activities are related to the real needs of society.
    • L. E. Dickson, during a discussion period that followed the presentation of a paper at a meeting of the American Mathematical Society, where he criticized the choice of the paper’s topic. Fifteen minutes later he presented a paper of his own outlining a proof that every sufficiently large integer can be written as a sum of, not 1140 tenth powers (the best previous result), but 1046 tenth powers.
    • Source: Howard Eves in Return to Mathematical Circles [1]

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