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Born November 26, 1894 • Columbia • Missouri
Died March 18, 1964 (aged 69) • Stockholm • Sweden
Awards And Honors National Medal of Science (1963)
Notable Works “Cybernetics: or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine”
Subjects Of Study Brownian motion process • cybernetics • quantum • stationary process • stochastic process

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American mathematician
Richard Karp
Richard Karp
American mathematician and computer scientist
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American mathematician
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American mathematician
Hans Georg Dehmelt
American physicist
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American mathematician and computer scientist
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Henri Poincaré, 1909.
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Bernhard Riemann, lithograph after a portrait, artist unknown, 1863.
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