Mathematicians and computer wizards.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine derived contents note: Preface xi
- Abel, Niels Henrik 1
- Abul-Wafa Al-Buzjani, Muhammed 4
- Agnesi, Maria Gaetana 6
- Aiken, Howard Hathaway 9
- Al-Khwarizmi, Muhammed Ibn Musa 11
- Ampere, Andre'-Marie 13
- Andreessen, Marc 15
- Appolonius of Perga 18
- Archimedes 20
- Atanasoff, John Vincent 24
- Babbage, Charles 27
- JOSEPH-MARIE JACQUARD 29
- Backus, John 30
- Bemers-Lee, Tim 33
- Bernoulli, Daniel 35
- THE BERNOULLI SOCIETY FOR MATHEMATICAL
- STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY 36
- Bernoulli, Jakob 38
- Bernoulli, Johann 41
- Boole, George 43
- Bricklin, Daniel 45
- Brown, Marjorie 47
- Byron, Ada 49
- Cantor, Georg 53
- Cauchy, Augustin-Louis 56
- Cayley, Arthur 58
- LONDON MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY 61
- Cerf, Vinton 62
- ROBERT E. KAHN 64
- Chang, Sun-Yung Alice 66
- Chatelet, Gabrielle-Emilie 68
- Copemrnicus, Nicolaus 70
- Courant, Richard 73
- Cray, Seymour 76
- Descartes, Rene 79
- Dijkstra, Edsger 82
- Dirichlet, Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune 84
- Eckert, J. Presper 89
- ENIAC 92
- Eratosthenes 93
- Erdos, Paul 94
- Euclid 97
- Eudoxus of Cnidus 98
- Euler, Leonhard 101
- Fefferman, Charles 103
- THE FIELDS MEDAL 105
- Fermat, Pierre de 106
- Fibonacci, Leonardo 109
- Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph 112
- Galileo 115
- Gates, Bill 119
- PAUL ALLEN 122
- Gauss, Carl 123
- Germain, Sophie 125
- Godel, Kurt 127
- PRINCETON INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDY 129
- Granville, Evelyn Boyd 131
- Hamming, Richard 133
- Hardy, G .H 136
- Harriot, Thomas 140
- Hilbert, David 143
- Hollerith, Herman 147
- THE COMPUTER MUSEUM HISTORY CENTER 149
- Hopper, Grace 149
- NATIONAL MEDAL OF TECHNOLOGY 151
- Huygens, Christiaan 152
- Hypatia of Alexandria 153
- Jobs, Steve 157
- SILICON VALLEY 160
- Kemeny, John 161
- Kepler, Johannes 16 2
- Khayyam, Omar 164
- Klein, Christian Felix 166
- Kolmogorov, Andrei 169
- Kovalevskaya, Sofya 172
- Kurtz, Thomas 175
- Lagrange, Joseph-Louis 179
- Laplace, Pierre-Simon 182
- Legendre, Adrien-Marie 184
- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von 186
- Lui Hui 188
- Mauchly, John 191
- Menaechmus 194
- Menelaus of Alexandria 196
- Milnor, John 198
- Mobius, August Ferdinand 201
- Monge, Gaspard 203
- Morawetz, Cathleen Synge 206
- Napier, John 209
- Nash, John E 211
- Newton, Sir Isaac 215
- Neyman, Jerzy 219
- Noether, Emmy (Amalie) 224
- ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN IN MATHEMATICS 226
- Norris, W illiam 227
- Noyce, Robert 229
- JACK S. KILBY 231
- Pappus of Alexandria 233
- Pascal, Blaise 235
- Pearson, Karl 237
- Poincare, Jules Henri 240
- Ptolemy 243
- Pythagoras 246
- Ramanujan, Srinivasa 249
- Rees, Mina 252
- Regiomontanus 254
- Rhodes, Ida 257
- Riemann, Bernhard 260
- Robinson, Julia 262
- Russell, Bertrand 265
- Sam met, Jean 269
- Scott, Charlotte Agnas 271
- Shih-chieh, Chu 2 274
- Smale, Stephen 275
- NATIONAL MEDAL OF SCIENCE 278
- Somerville, Mary 279
- Stieltjes, Thomas Jan 283
- Sylvester, James 285
- Tapia, Richard A 289
- Tarski, Alfred 292
- Taussky-Todd, Olga 294
- Turing, Alan 297
- Uhlenbeck, Karen 301
- Ulam, Stanislaw 303
- Von Neumann, John 307
- AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY 309
- Wang, An 311
- Weierstrass, Karl 316
- Well, Andre 319
- NICOLAS BOURBAKI SOCIETY 320
- Weyl, Hermann, 321
- Wheeler, Anna Johnson Pell 324
- Whitehead, Alfred North 326
- Wiener, Norbert 329
- Wiles, Andrew 332
- YUTAKA TANIYAMA 334
- Wilkins, J. Ernest Jr. 335
- Wirth, Niklaus 336
- Wozniak, Stephen 338
- THE PERSONAL COMPUTER 340
- Yau, Shing-Tung 343
- Young, Grace Chisholm 345
- Zuse, Konrad 349
- BERLIN'S KONRAD-ZUSE CENTRE
- FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 351
- Time Line of Mathematics 353
- Article Sources 377
- Photo Credits 379
- Additional Resources 381
- Glossary 409
- Index 421.