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Disciplines in Mathematics & Computing
Pure and applied mathematics, statistics, logic and the origins of computing.
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Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
780 – 850Gave the world algebra and, through his own name, the algorithm.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
1646 – 1716Calculus notation we still use, and binary arithmetic.
Ada Lovelace
1815 – 1852Wrote the first algorithm intended for a machine and saw computing beyond numbers.
John von Neumann
1903 – 1957Computer architecture, game theory, quantum foundations.
Grace Hopper
1906 – 1992Built the first compiler and made programming languages English-like.
Konrad Zuse
1910 – 1995Built the first programmable digital computer, the Z3, in 1941.
Alan Turing
1912 – 1954Defined what a computer is, then was destroyed by the country he saved.
Claude Shannon
1916 – 2001Information theory: the bit, and the mathematics of all digital communication.
Tim Berners-Lee
b. 1955Wrote the web and gave it away for nothing.