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Hubert Kennedy

b. 1931

American mathematician and author

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Born 1931. Hubert Kennedy is an American writer, mathematician, historian, lGBTQ rights activist and activist.

Hubert Collings Kennedy (born March 6, 1931) is an American author and mathematician.

Career Kennedy was born March 6, 1931, in Polk County, Florida, and studied mathematics at several universities. From 1961 he was a professor of mathematics, with research interest in the history of mathematics, at Providence College (Rhode Island). He spent three sabbatical years doing research in Italy and Germany. He published a definitive biography of Giuseppe Peano who conceived modern mathematical notation in his Formulario mathematico.

Kennedy came out as gay on the cover of the magazine The Cowl and, along with Eric Gordon, was part of the first Gay Pride parade in Providence, Rhode Island, which was held on June 26, 1976.

In 1986 Kennedy moved to San Francisco, where he continued his historical research, now on the beginnings of the gay movement in Germany. He has over 200 publications in several languages, from an analysis of the mathematical manuscripts of Karl Marx and a revelation of Marx's homophobia, to theoretical genetics and a proof of the impossibility of an organism that requires more than two sexes in order to reproduce. In addition, Kennedy wrote a biography of the German jurist and pioneering homosexual emancipationist Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, and edited the collected writings of Ulrichs. His translations of the boy-love novels of the German anarchist writer John Henry Mackay and his investigations of the writings of Mackay have helped establish Mackay's place in the gay canon.

Kennedy married his longtime companion, Don Endy, in 2014.

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Important facts

Born
1931, Polk County
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Education
Saint Louis University
Also known as
Hubert C. Kennedy, Kennedy, Hubert C., Hubert Collings Kennedy

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Who is Hubert Kennedy?

American mathematician and author

When was Hubert Kennedy born?

Hubert Kennedy was born in 1931 in Polk County.

What is Hubert Kennedy's occupation?

Hubert Kennedy is a writer, mathematician, historian, lGBTQ rights activist and activist.

What nationality is Hubert Kennedy?

Hubert Kennedy is American.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Hubert Kennedy

· Wikidata: Q1633246

· DBpedia: Hubert Kennedy

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