Benjamin Yandell
Age: 53
Summary: author and mathematician who wrote The Honors Class: Hilbert's Problems and Their Solvers,
a book about those who had either solved or attempted to solve the 23
problems that German scholar David Hilbert laid out in his address to
the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1900 to inspire future
mathematicians.
Cause of Death: Heart attack
Born: March 16, 1951
Died: August 25, 2004
Location: Pasadena, California