Mathematics is the foundation of all engineering. If you want to learn in engineering science, you must have a solid mathematical foundation. For example, in computer science, discrete mathematics is its essence.
Here, you will introduce you to the mathematics or itself is the primary achievement of mathematicians and their main achievements.
In 1986, Robert E.TARJAN won the bachelor's degree in the California, and later obtained a Ph.D. in Computer and Mathematics at Stanford. It is a Professor Princeton Computer System, the main research chart, algorithm and data structure design. He found that it is widely used in the algorithm for judging whether a picture is a linear time complexity of a plan, and has wide application in the fields of database software, circuit design, aviation circuit maps. Tarjan is also the first Nevanlinna Award winner in 1982.
In 1972, Edsger W.Dijkstra was awarded by bachelorology and physics in the Netherlands of the motherland. Theoretical physics doctoral degree. Before he retired in 2000, he has been a computer science and mathematics professor in Taxas University. The shortest path algorithm in the chart theory named by his name. However, he obtained the main reason for the Tu Ling Award is invented by the second-generation programming language of Algol. (TASSADAR: Dijkstra is definitely idolian characters)
In 1985, the Richard M.KARP was awarded in Harvard University. It is now a professor of the Berkeley University Computer. The most important paper is "Reducibility Among Combinator Problems" published in 1972. He is quite building a tree in a parallel algorithm, a combined optimization problem. The current research direction is human gene sequencing and gene data expression. He is also academicians of the National Academy of Sciences and has won the National Science Award.
In 1974, the Donald E. Knuth was awarded by the California Institute of Technology. Before retired, it was a professor of the computer system of Standford University. Invention Mathematical Typing Software TEX, now is writing hugeest THE ART OF Computer Programming, published 3 volumes. (TASSADAR: In the world design of computer program, God dressed as knuth)
In 1983, Dennis M.Ritchie was appointed by Harvard University. After graduation, add the Bell laboratory to participate in the invent of the Unix operating system, invented C, C programming languages. (TASSADAR: Individual thinks should be a C standard participant, but Bjarne Stroustrup should be true C father)
William v.kahan, awarded William V.Kahan, 1989 is a mathematics professor at Berkeley, California. He won the award because of the contribution of numerical calculations, especially floating point operations, some people evaluate him "Dedicated Himself to make the World Safe for Numeric Computations."
John Cocke in 1987, a Ph.D. in Mathematics at Duke University. After graduating, IBM work and I have done a passenger professor at the Courant Institute of MIT and NYU. The main contribution is to invent RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Compute, greatly improving the performance of the chip.
In 1969, Marvin Minsky won the bachelor of Mathematics in Harvard, a master's degree in Princeton, after MIT, math and professor. The main contribution is artificial intelligence.
John McCarthy, awarded in 1971, a bachelor's math in California, a Ph.D. in Mathematics in PRINCETON. Artificial intelligence masters, Lisp language inventors.
In 1970, John Hardy Wilkinson was born in the age of 16. The main contribution is numerical calculation and "backward" error analysis. In 1968, awarded Richard Hamming, was a doctoral degree in UIUC, and the topic of doctoral thesis was "Boundary Value Problem in Linear Differential Equations". In numerical analysis, probability statistics, coding theory has a building tree.
