<![CDATA[Topics tagged with mathematician]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/tags/mathematicianRSS for NodeTue, 21 Jul 2026 22:43:41 GMTInvalid Date60<![CDATA[What was mathematician David Hilbert hiding under his hat?]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/topic/27462d21-e826-49fd-8361-451b1f629e80/what-was-mathematician-david-hilbert-hiding-under-his-hathttps://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/topic/27462d21-e826-49fd-8361-451b1f629e80/what-was-mathematician-david-hilbert-hiding-under-his-hatInvalid Date<![CDATA[#RIP #GladysWest]]>
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]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/topic/f9acfce3-8e81-4559-b877-259295dfaa99/rip-gladyswesthttps://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/topic/f9acfce3-8e81-4559-b877-259295dfaa99/rip-gladyswestInvalid Date<![CDATA[Happy birthday to #mathematician & #computerscientist US Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper (1906-1992) who popularized the revolutionary idea of developing machine-independent programming languages based on English.]]>Happy birthday to & US Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper (1906-1992) who popularized the revolutionary idea of developing machine-independent programming languages based on English.

She began teaching at Vassar in 31 & got PhD (Yale) in 34. She found marriage & teaching less fulfilling & tried to enlist in the Navy, but was rejected then got a special exemption to 🧵

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]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/topic/ef328d43-c697-4cfc-8999-c712e443bff3/happy-birthday-to-mathematician-computerscientist-us-navy-rear-admiral-grace-hopper-1906-1992-who-popularized-the-revolutionary-idea-of-developing-machine-independent-programming-languages-based-on-english.https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/topic/ef328d43-c697-4cfc-8999-c712e443bff3/happy-birthday-to-mathematician-computerscientist-us-navy-rear-admiral-grace-hopper-1906-1992-who-popularized-the-revolutionary-idea-of-developing-machine-independent-programming-languages-based-on-english.Invalid Date<![CDATA[Happy birthday to Alan Turing, OBE, FRS (1912 – 1954), British #mathematician, #cryptanalyst, computer scientist, prophet & hero.]]>Happy birthday to Alan Turing, OBE, FRS (1912 – 1954), British , , computer scientist, prophet & hero. Turing foresaw not only that machines might quite likely develop the capacity to think (after all, our brains are only made of matter, and complex systems of neurons, which either fire or not, much like an electronic switch), but that we needed an objective, double-blind test to determine whether 🧵1/n

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