Rand was born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum on February 2, 1905, into a Jewish bourgeois family living in Saint Petersburg in what was then the Russian Empire.
Why This Great Mathematician Wanted a Heptadecagon on His Tombstone (scientificamerican.com) Mathematician Gauss left behind a trophy case of mathematical achievements to highlight on his tombstone, but above all he wanted a regular heptadecagon etched on it
Heptadecagon (Wikipedia) In geometry, a heptadecagon, septadecagon or 17-gon is a seventeen-sided polygon.
