Who was the strongest mathematician to serve as US
President?
I just read in Ulysses's S Grant's Memoirs
that war in Mexico stopped
him from teaching math at West Point. Not too
bad.
I suppose Thomas Jefferson? He definitely had a few
math books around
I wonder what "Emerson's Fluxion's" is about.
Also "Sir Isaac Newton's
tables for the Renewals of Leases" sounds promising
from the Jefferson
library.
It would be nice if Thomas Jefferson weren't the
best at everything, but
if that's the way it is, we have to live with
it.
I remember Jimmy Carter frequently being described
as a "nuclear engineer,"
but that was when it was popular to think that Ford
was a bumbler.