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The Admirable Crichton, as depicted in English Travellers of the Renaissance, a 1914 publication by Clare Howard. James Crichton, known as the Admirable Crichton (19 August 1560 – 3 July 1582), was an alleged Scottish polymath noted for his extraordinary accomplishments in languages, the arts, and sciences before he was murdered at the age of 21.
Pearn studied high school at Brisbane Grammar School, graduating in 1957. [1] He was an active Boy Scout and in 1955 was awarded the Scout Cord. [2]Pearn went on to attain a bachelor's degree in science at the University of Queensland, subsequently graduating with First Class Honours in Medicine and Surgery in 1964.
Work began in August 1948, and the first version was operational by April 1949; a program written to search for Mersenne primes ran error-free for nine hours on the night of 16/17 June 1949. The machine's successful operation was widely reported in the British press, which used the phrase "electronic brain" in describing it to their readers.
Sir Thomas Heath – polymath, civil servant, mathematician, classical scholar, historian of ancient Greek mathematics, translator and mountaineer; Geoffrey Hinton – computer scientist and cognitive psychologist [1] Arthur Hutchinson – mineralogist, professor, and Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge [2] Arthur Jose – historian and ...
McRuer was a voracious reader, a habit that made him a polymath. McRuer served in the US Navy during World War II as a lieutenant, and worked on anti-submarine techniques. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1945 and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering in 1948, both from the California Institute ...
Charles Babbage KH FRS (/ ˈ b æ b ɪ dʒ /; 26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English polymath. [1] A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer. [2] Babbage is considered by some to be "father of the computer".
In mathematics education, calculus is an abbreviation of both infinitesimal calculus and integral calculus, which denotes courses of elementary mathematical analysis.. In Latin, the word calculus means “small pebble”, (the diminutive of calx, meaning "stone"), a meaning which still persists in medicine.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (or Leibnitz; [a] 1 July 1646 [O.S. 21 June] – 14 November 1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat who is credited, alongside Sir Isaac Newton, with the creation of calculus in addition to many other branches of mathematics, such as binary arithmetic and statistics.