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		Alan Mathison Turing ^Votes:0 Alan Turing by John M. Kowalik Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for CS 3604, Professionalism in Computing, Fall 1995. Born 23 June 1912, London; Died 7 June 1954, Manchester England; Pioneer in developing computer logic as we know it today. One of the first to approach the topic of artificial intelligence. Education: Sherborne School, 1926-31; Wrangler, Mathematics Tripos, Kings College, Cambridge,1931; Ph.D., Princeton University, 1938 Professional Experience: Fellow, King's College, 1935-45;Princeton University, 1936-38; British Foreign Office, Bletchley Park, 1939-45; National Physical Laboratory, 1945-48; University of Manchester, 1948-54; Honors and Awards: Smith's Prize, Cambridge University, 1936; Order of the British Empire (OBE), 1946; Fellow, Royal Society, 19 Read More Go to Site


		Alan Turing - Home Page ^Votes:0 The Alan Turing Home Page Maintained by Andrew Hodges, author of Alan Turing: the Enigma. This page is the guide to a large website dedicated to Alan Turing (1912-1954) Who was Alan Turing? Founder of computer science, mathematician, philosopher, codebreaker, strange visionary and a gay man before his time: 1912 (23 June): Birth, Paddington, London 1926-31: Sherborne School 1930: Death of friend Christopher Morcom 1931-34: Undergraduate at King's College, Cambridge University 1932-35: Quantum mechanics, probability, logic 1935: Elected fellow of King's College, Cambridge 1936: The Turing machine, computability, universal machine 1936-38: Princeton University. Ph.D. Logic, algebra, number theory 1938-39: Return to Cambridge. Introduced to German Enigma cipher machine 1939-40: The Bombe, mac Read More Go to Site

		Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662) ^Votes:0 Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662) From `A Short Account of the History of Mathematics' (4th edition, 1908) by W. W. Rouse Ball. Among the contemporaries of Descartes none displayed greater natural genius than Pascal, but his mathematical reputation rests more on what he might have done than on what he actually effected, as during a considerable part of his life he deemed it his duty to devote his whole time to religious exercises. Blaise Pascal was born at Clermont on June 19, 1623, and died at Paris on Aug. 19, 1662. His father, a local judge at Clermont, and himself of some scientific reputation, moved to Paris in 1631, partly to prosecute his own scientific studies, partly to carry on the education of his only son, who had already displayed exceptional ability. Pascal was kept at home in orde Read More Go to Site

		Pascal ^Votes:0 Blaise Pascal Born: 19 June 1623 in Clermont-Ferrand, France Died: 19 Aug 1662 in Paris, France Blaise Pascal worked on conic sections and produced important theorems in projective geometry. In correspondence with Fermat he laid the foundation for the theory of probability. Pascal's father, Étienne Pascal, had unorthodox educational views and decided to teach his son himself. He decided that Pascal was not to study mathematics before the age of 15 and all mathematics texts were removed from their house. Pascal however, his curiosity raised by this, started to work on geometry himself at the age of 12. He discovered that the sum of the angles of a triangle are 2 right angles and, when his father found out he relented and allowed Pascal a copy of Euclid. At the age of 14 Pascal started to at Read More Go to Site

		Pascal ^Votes:0 Born: June 19, 1623 in Clermont-Ferrand, France Died: August 19, 1662 in Paris, France Short Biography Blaise Pascal accomplished Euclid's Elements before he was 12 years old. Furthermore, studying hydrostatics helped him invent the syringe and hydraulic press. The Pascaline was the first digital calculator. Blaise Pascal invented it to help his father collect taxes. He worked on it for three years. Blaise presented his first research paper when he was 16 years old. In the paper were several of Pascals geometry theorems. He published " Essay on Conic Sections " ( Essay pour les coniques ), using the methods of Gerard Desargues. In 1654 Pascal was admitted into a Jansenist monastery in Port Royal. There, he continued his studies in mathematics. In 1658, Pascal left the monas Read More Go to Site

		Pascal ^Votes:0 Blaise Pascal June 19 1623 - Aug 19 1662 Born Clermont-Ferrand, France. Died Paris, France. Welcome page The World Great Mathematicians Pascal's father >(Pascal, Étienne) had unorthodox educational views and decided to teach his son himself. He decided that Pascal was not to study mathematics before the age of 15 and all mathematics texts were removed from their house. Pascal however, his curiosity raised by this, started to work on geometry himself at the age of 12. He discovered that the sum of the angles of a triangle are 2 right angles and, when his father found out he relented and allowed Pascal a copy of Euclid. At the age of 14 Pascal started to attend Mersenne's meetings. Mersenne belonged to the religious order of the Minims, and his cell in Paris was a frequent meeting place for Read More Go to Site

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		Ptolemy, the Man ^Votes:0 Ptolemy (aka Claudius Ptolemaeus, Ptolomaeus, Klaudios Ptolemaios, Ptolemeus) lived in Alexandria (in Egypt) from approx. 87 -150 AD. Very little is known about his personal life (the image above is probably purely the artist's imagination) He was an astronomer, mathematician and geographer. He codified the Greek geocentric view of the universe, and rationalized the apparent motions of the planets as they were known in his time. Ptolemy synthesized and extended Hipparchus's system of epicycles and eccentric circles to explain his geocentric theory of the solar system. Ptolemy's system involved at least 80 epicycles to explain the motions of the Sun, the Moon, and the five planets known in his time. He believed the planets and sun to orbit the Earth in the order Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, J Read More Go to Site

		Pythagoras ^Votes:0 Born: 582? - 500? BC in Samos, Ionia {y-ohn'-ee-uh} Died: about 500 BC in Metapontum, Lucania Short Biography Pythagoras was a Greek religious leader and a philosopher who made developments in astronomy, mathematics, and music theories. He moved to Croton (a city in southern Italy) and started a religious and philosophical school there. He had many followers called the Pythagoreans. The works of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans can not be separated because the school in which they worked in was restricted to secrecy. The most important idea of the Pythagoreans was that most things could be understood through math, which was important to math and science development. Pythagoras or his students proved the converse theorem, though it was used much earlier in Egypt. The schools most impor Read More Go to Site

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		Runge ^Votes:0 Carle David Tolm? Runge Aug 30 1856 - Jan 3 1927 Born Bremen, Germany. Died GÖttingen, Germany. Welcome page The World Great Mathematicians Runge worked on a procedure for the numerical solution of algebraic equations and later studied the wavelengths of the spectral lines of elements. At the age of 19, after leaving school, Runge spent 6 months with his mother visiting the cultural centres of Italy. On his return to Germany he enrolled at the University of Munich to study literature. However after 6 weeks of the course he changed to mathematics and physics. Runge attended courses with Max Planck and they became close friends. In 1877 both went to Berlin but Runge turned to pure mathematics after attending Weierstrass' lectures. His doctoral dissertation (1880) dealt with differential geom Read More Go to Site

		Stokes ^Votes:0 George Gabriel Stokes Aug 13 1819 - Feb 1 1903 Born Sligo, Ireland. Died Cambridge, England. Welcome page The World Great Mathematicians Stokes established the science of hydrodynamics with his law of viscosity (1851), describing the velocity of a small sphere through a viscous fluid. Stokes published papers on the motion of incompressible fluids in 1842-43 and on the friction of fluids in motion and the equilibrium and motion of elastic solids in 1845. In 1849 Stokes was appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge. In 1851 Stokes was elected to the Royal Society and was secretary of the Society from 1854 to 1884 when he was elected president. He investigated the wave theory of light, named and explained the phenomenon of fluorescence in 1852, and in 1854 theorised an explanat Read More Go to Site

		Turing ^Votes:0 Alan Mathison Turing June 23 1912 - June 7 1954 Born London, England. Died Wilmslow, England. Welcome page The World Great Mathematicians Turing's work was fundamental in the theoretical foundations of computer science. Turing studied at King's College London and was a graduate student at Princeton University from 1936 to 1938. While at Princeton Turing published "On Computable Numbers", a paper in which he conceived an abstract machine, now called a Turing machine, which moved from one state to another using a precise set of rules. Turing returned to England in 1938 and during World War II, he worked in the British Foreign Office. Here he played a leading role in efforts to break enemy codes. In 1945 he joined the National Physical Laboratory in London and worked on the design a Read More Go to Site

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