Bayard Rankin
Contributor
LOCATION: Cleveland, OH, United States
Associate Editor, Mathematics, Encyclopædia Britannica, Chicago, 1971–73. Associate Professor of Mathematics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, 1960–71.
Primary Contributions (1)
Automata theory, body of physical and logical principles underlying the operation of any electromechanical device (an automaton) that converts information from one form into another according to a definite procedure. Real or hypothetical automata of varying complexity have become indispensable…
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