Seymour Hayden (Harpsichord)

Born: USA

The American harpsichordist and mathematician, Seymour Hayden, received his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1963 from the Harvard University, with the dissertation: On Finite Linear Groups Whose Order Contains a Prime Larger Than the Degree. He also studied harpsichord with Ralph Kirkpatrick.

Seymour Hayden became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London in 1980 as a result of his career as a harpsichordist. A math professor at Clark University, in Worcester, he also did classified work as an Air Force cryptographer. He is now a professor emeritus at the City University of New York.

Source: Bits & pieces from various websites
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (August 2009)

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