-Danny (via blackberry) -----Original Message----- From: math-fun-bounces@mailman.xmission.com <math-fun-bounces@mailman.xmission.com> To: Gareth McCaughan <gareth.mccaughan@pobox.com> CC: math-fun@mailman.xmission.com <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Sat Sep 22 15:21:10 2007 Subject: Re: [math-fun] El Matemático question Many thanks Gareth! I looked on the Internet before posting here buy obviously missed the link you gave. Jim On 9/22/07, Gareth McCaughan <gareth.mccaughan@pobox.com> wrote:

On Saturday 22 September 2007, James Buddenhagen wrote:

...

In 1918 (or 1919?) the acclaimed Mexican artist Diego Rivera painted a painting called "El Matemático" (the mathematician). ... I am trying the find out who is depicted in that painting, which, by the way, was done in Paris.

According to http://www.vf.utwente.nl/~jagersaa/D_R.html it was one René Paresce, who got a PhD in physics, spent some time as a journalist and ended up as a painter.

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