Seymour Geisser belongs to the mathematical record as a figure whose results outlasted the problems that prompted them.
The record lists Seymour Geisser as American mathematician (1929-2004).
Seymour Geisser was born at New York City in 1929. His recorded nationality is United States. He studied at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Twentieth-century mathematics became abstract and highly specialised, and its methods reached into physics, economics and computing.
Mathematics is the one discipline whose results, once proved, are never overturned.
That the work was done from United States matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Seymour Geisser died in 2004, aged 75. The proofs remain, and a proof does not decay - which is the particular permanence mathematics offers.
