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. |