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The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Louis J. Mordell
Born: January 28, 1888
Died: March 12, 1972 (aged 84)
Bio: Louis Joel Mordell was an American-born British mathematician, known for pioneering research in number theory. He was born in Philadelphia, United States, in a Jewish family of Lithuanian extraction.
Known for:
- Diophantine equations (1969)
- Three Lectures on Fermat's Last Theorem (1921)
- Famous Problems, and Other Monographs