Daniel Andrew Beal was born on November 29,1952 and is an American banker, businessman, investor, and amateur mathematician.
19 Facts About Andrew Beal
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Andrew Beal is a Dallas-based businessman who accumulated wealth in real estate and banking.
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Andrew Beal has funded a $1 million standing prize for its proof or disproof.
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Andrew Beal participated in some high-stakes poker games in the mid-2000s that were the subject of a book.
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Andrew Beal grew up in Lansing, Michigan, where his mother worked in state government, and his father was a mechanical engineer.
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Andrew Beal's siblings include an older brother and a younger sister.
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Andrew Beal started a business moving houses and managed rental properties.
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At age 19, Andrew Beal became a real estate investor when he bought a house in Lansing for $6,500 and started leasing it for $119 per month.
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Andrew Beal became known for buying properties, renovating them, and selling them.
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In 1988, Andrew Beal opened a bank in Dallas, and in 2004, another in Las Vegas.
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In 1997, as part of a space privatization trend encouraged by the federal government, Andrew Beal started an aerospace company to build rockets with the goal of placing communications satellites in orbit.
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Andrew Beal cited NASA's commercial practices as the primary reason for closing, including the difficulty private-sector launch systems face when competing with the governmental subsidies of NASA.
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Andrew Beal has donated millions of dollars to support science and math initiatives.
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Andrew Beal donated $1 million to the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, which opened in December 2012.
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Andrew Beal's companies donated more than 200 computers to the Dallas Independent School District for student use.
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The funds are held in trust by the American Mathematical Society, and an informational website on the Andrew Beal Conjecture is hosted by the University of North Texas.
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On May 13,2004, at the Las Vegas Bellagio, Andrew Beal won one of the largest single hands in poker history, $11.7 million.
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Andrew Beal served as one of the top economic advisers to Trump's campaign.
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Andrew Beal donated $2 million to a Trump super PAC in September 2016, and another $1 million for the inaugural festivities according to Forbes.