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Paul J. Brinson

Nov. 24, 1931—July 17, 2011
Aged 79 years, 7 Months and 23 Days

 

Paul J. BrinsonBorn in Buffalo, Mr. Brinson spent most of his childhood working for Brinson’s Red Hots, the family’s hot dog stand at the corner of Colvin Boulevard and Sheridan Drive. One of the area’s original charcoal-broiled hot dog stands, it operated from the mid-1930s until 1960. During the Great Depression, the family lived in a trailer behind the restaurant.

Mr. Brinson was a 1949 graduate of Kenmore High School and earned a bachelor’s degree in biology and chemistry from Oberlin College in 1953. He intended to pursue a medical career, earning a scholarship to attend Syracuse University Medical School. But his plans were derailed when he was stricken with rheumatic fever and was bedridden for five years in the late 1950s. Instead, he pursued a career in law, graduating from the University of Buffalo Law School in 1961. Mr. Brinson began practicing law in 1962, in an office across the street from the Kenmore Municipal Building. His brother, Walter J. Brinson Jr., joined him in 1966, forming Brinson and Brinson, a general practice. He also had been an adjunct professor of consumer law at Buffalo State College.

Mr. Brinson studied in Spain while pursuing his law degree and became fluent in Spanish. Subsequently, he participated in the Erie County Bar Association’s Volunteer Lawyers Project, representing indigent Spanish-speaking clients. After retiring in 1996, he helped with reading group activities for first-graders at Herman Badillo Bilingual Academy in Buffalo.

Active in Town of Tonawanda politics, he served as Republican Party committeeman in the 1960s and as a Conservative Party committeeman in the 1970s and 1980s. He was an unsuccessful candidate for town justice in 1979. Mr. Brinson was a member of several professional organizations, as well as the Big Wheels Bicycle Club. A competitive runner, he completed four marathons—including the Boston and New York marathons. He was a longtime member of the Unitarian Universalist Church. Mr. Brinson donated his body to the University at Buffalo Medical School upon his death.

Paul J. Brinson’s main hobby was Twin Primes. He tried hard also to find a solution to the four color theorem in the 1970s, but switched to the Twin Primes in the 1980s.

Mr. Brinson self-published his first work in 1989. He sent it out to many mathematicians worldwide, and got several responses. One Mathematician from Sweden found a flaw in the proof, and Mr. Brinson spent many years attempting to correct that flaw. By the time of his death, he had successfully amended the most of the proof. Only Point 7 remains unfinished.

In 2000, he wrote "A Formula for the Fine Structure Constant," a formula that was associated with his Twin Prime Theorem. His Fine Structure Constant formula was deemed to have potential by several university level mathematicians. However, in his final years, he devoted most of his efforts to completing his primary work on the Twin Prime Theorem.

You can read these works on The Work page.


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