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Born November 26, 1894 • Columbia • Missouri • (Birthday in 5 days)
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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Isadore Singer receiving the Abel Prize
Isadore Singer
American mathematician
Antoni Zygmund
American mathematician
Charles Fefferman
American mathematician
Richard Karp
Richard Karp
American mathematician and computer scientist
George Dantzig
American mathematician
Saunders Mac Lane
American mathematician
Hans Georg Dehmelt
American physicist
Donald Knuth
American mathematician and computer scientist
Richard Dagobert Brauer
American mathematician
John McCarthy
American mathematician and computer scientist
John Cocke
American mathematician and computer scientist
Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
Bernhard Riemann, lithograph after a portrait, artist unknown, 1863.
Bernhard Riemann
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Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician
Joseph Fourier
Joseph Fourier
French mathematician
Adrien-Marie Legendre
French mathematician
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
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