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Harry Henderson is an educational and technical editor and writer specializing in the areas of mathematics and computer science. He is the author of many Facts On File and Chelsea House books, including Modern Robotics; Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology, Revised Edition (highly mostrar más recommended by Library Journal and Choice); Modern Mathematicians; Artificial Intelligence; and Nuclear Physics. mostrar menos

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Obras de Harry Henderson

Modern Mathematicians (1996) 20 copias
Stephen Hawking (1995) 2 copias
Understanding MS-DOS (1989) 2 copias

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Conocimiento común

Fecha de nacimiento
1951-01-05
Género
male
Nacionalidad
USA
Lugar de nacimiento
San Francisco, California, USA
Lugares de residencia
El Cerrito, California, USA
Educación
University of California, Berkeley (BA|1973)
Ocupaciones
tech writer
Biografía breve
Harry Henderson is a professional educational and technical editor and writer specializing in science, mathematics, biography, aand history for middle school and high school students. Mr. Henderson's numerous publications include Career Opportunities in Computers and Cyberspace, Privacy in the Information Age, and Modern Mathematicians, a biographical collection selected as one of the "1997 Books for the Teen Age" by the New York Public Library.

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This is a short book about the people, ideas, and achievements related to artificial intelligence over the last century or so. It provides a succinct history of the field.
 
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DLMorrese | Oct 14, 2016 |
Except for John Conway, I believe that these "modern mathematicians" are all dead. Most were dead by the time the book was published, so that was not the author's criterion for "modern". It is not clear what was.

This book is a bunch of capsule biographies of mathematicians, starting with Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage and ending with John Conway. Several of the dozen or so mathematicians made significant contributions to computer science, that circumstance may give them a claim to be modern. Mathematicians covered:

Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace - the analytical engine
George Boole - the laws of thought
Georg Cantor - classifying infinities
Sofia Kovalevskaia - Of aristocratic descent and married a principled revolutionary so she could travel. Worked in calculus and theories of planetary motion.
Emmy Noether - Because her mathematical contributions had such an importance in modern physics her invention of Noetherian induction is not even mentioned. It is not clear to me, from the general description, what her contributions to physics precisely were. We all know what an invariant is.
Srinivasa Ramanujan - Self-taught number theorist.
Stanislav Ulam - UW-Madison - Began work with von Neumann on automata.
Shing-Chen Chern - A geometer whose work influenced modern physics.
Alan Turing - Favorite dead computer scientist
Julia Bowman Robinson - Another number theorist and the first woman in this book who was not absolutely stamped all over by the establishment.
Benoit Mandelbrot - Fractals, chaos, and economic markets
John Conway - Cellular Automata
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themulhern | Feb 14, 2016 |
Mary Edmonida Lewis was born July 4, 1844 (or so she says) in Greenbush, New York (now Rensselaer). She grew up with many of the adversities befitting her station in life, but eventually went to college and became a world renowned sculptor. Her works were displayed at the 1876 Centennial Exposition and she was even commissioned to do a bust of President Ulysses S. Grant. All of this would have remarkable had she been solely a woman in 19th century America. But she had one other major hurdle to overcome which speaks to both her perseverence and her skill—she was both Native American and African-American. Written by the father-son team of Harry and Albert Henderson, The Indomitable Spirit of Edmonia Lewis is the culmination of decades of research on this long-forgotten artist.

While the details of Lewis’s life are scant, her story is still worth telling. She attended one of the first racially and gender integrated colleges in the US (Oberlin). While there, though, she was subjected to a brutal beating after she weas suspected of poisoning two other students. In spite of this, she became a sculptor’s apprentice and sold her first piece for $8 (a decent windfall in those days). From there, went to study in Rome and was brought up in the Neoclassical tradition. In the decade following the Exposition, however, the world’s interest in Neoclassic design waned and she faded into obscurity, dying in London in 1907.

This book is based primarily on Harry Henderson’s research, conducted since the 1970s. His son Albert finished the text after his Harry’s death in 2003. This one is a purely electronic text, with hyperlinked footnotes and a vast index of works. The narrative quality, I feel, immerses the reader in the story more than a regular scholarly biography would. The Hendersons integrate information from news stories and letters to make it more like a novel than a history text. Lewis’s story is all at once interesting and sad. Her life, while forgotten for a while is now making a come back among art historians and this immense work helps to secure her artistic legacy. A daunting but illuminating read.
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Obras
47
Miembros
378
Popularidad
#63,851
Valoración
3.1
Reseñas
3
ISBNs
102

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