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All categories Literature & Letters202 Natural Sciences96 Mathematics & Computing36 Medicine & Healing Traditions99 Engineering & Technology24 Society, Peace & Law42 Economics, Business & Politics52 Music & Visual Arts0

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All disciplines Mathematics32 Statistics1 Computing9

Pure and applied mathematics, statistics, logic and the origins of computing.

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W. Edwards Deming

1900 – 1993

Statistical quality control rebuilt Japanese manufacturing and then global industry.

United States·Business · Statistics

Grace Hopper

1906 – 1992

Built the first compiler and made programming languages English-like.

United States·Computing

Claude Shannon

1916 – 2001

Information theory: the bit, and the mathematics of all digital communication.

United States·Mathematics · Computing