Lester S. Hill is remembered in mathematics for work the next generation could build on.
The record lists Lester S. Hill as American mathematician.
Lester S. Hill was born at New York City in 1891. His recorded nationality is United States. He studied at Columbia University and Yale University.
Around the turn of the twentieth century the foundations of mathematics were under open attack, and set theory and logic became urgent questions.
His academic posts were held at Princeton University, Yale University and Hunter College.
The recorded fields of work are information theory and cryptography.
Mathematics accumulates without discarding: a proof from two thousand years ago is still a proof.
That the work was done from United States matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Lester S. Hill died in 1961, aged 70. The proofs remain, and a proof does not decay - which is the particular permanence mathematics offers.
Achievements
- Held posts at Princeton University, Yale University and Hunter College
- Fields: information theory and cryptography
