FamousPeopleFacts - Richard Hamming
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Richard Hamming

Date of Birth: February 11, 1915 Zodiac Sign: Aquarius Date of Death: January 7, 1998 Biography Richard Wesley Hamming was a pioneering American mathematician and computer scientist, best known for his work in numerical methods, coding theory, and telecommunications. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Hamming earned…
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Richard Courant

Date of Birth: January 8, 1888 Zodiac Sign: Capricorn Date of Death: January 27, 1972 Biography Richard Courant was a prominent German-American mathematician renowned for his significant contributions to various fields of mathematics, including mathematical physics, partial differential equations, and numerical analysis. Born in Germany,…
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Rene Descartes

Date of Birth: March 31, 1596 Zodiac Sign: Aries Date of Death: February 11, 1650 Biography René Descartes was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist born on March 31, 1596, in La Haye en Touraine (now Descartes, Indre-et-Loire), France. Often referred to as the “Father…
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Raymond Smullyan

Date of Birth: May 25, 1919 Zodiac Sign: Gemini Date of Death: February 6, 2017 Biography Raymond Merrill Smullyan was a distinguished American mathematician, logician, philosopher, and magician known for his work in the fields of mathematical logic and recreational mathematics. Born in Far Rockaway,…
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Pythagoras

Date of Birth: c. 570 BCE Zodiac Sign: Unknown Date of Death: c. 495 BCE Biography Pythagoras of Samos was an ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician best known for formulating the Pythagorean theorem, a fundamental principle in geometry. Born around 570 BCE on the island…
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Paul Erdos

Date of Birth: March 26, 1913 Zodiac Sign: Aries Date of Death: September 20, 1996 Biography Paul Erdős was a renowned Hungarian mathematician, recognized for his prolific contributions to various fields of mathematics including number theory, combinatorics, and probability theory. Born on March 26, 1913,…
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Norbert Wiener

Date of Birth: November 26, 1894 Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius Date of Death: March 18, 1964 Biography Norbert Wiener was a pioneering American mathematician and philosopher, best known for his foundational work in the field of cybernetics, a term he coined to describe the study of…
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Moshe Vardi

Date of Birth: July 4, 1954 Zodiac Sign: Cancer Biography Moshe Y. Vardi is a distinguished mathematician and computer scientist, renowned for his significant contributions to the fields of logic in computer science, database theory, and automated reasoning. Born in Israel, Vardi pursued his education…
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Max Born

Date of Birth: December 11, 1882 Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius Date of Death: January 5, 1970 Biography Max Born was a renowned German-Jewish physicist and mathematician, instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. Born on December 11, 1882, in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), he exhibited…
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Maryam Mirzakhani

Date of Birth: May 12, 1977 Zodiac Sign: Taurus Date of Death: July 14, 2017 Biography Maryam Mirzakhani was an Iranian mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. Born in Tehran, Iran, she showed an early aptitude for mathematics and science. She attended…