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Mathematicians in Technology & Building

12 people, across 3 fields.

Field: All Science & Medicine 7 Technology & Building 4 Frontier & Sport 1

Claude Shannon 1916–2001Technology & InventionMathematician and engineer who founded information theory, the basis of all digital communication.

Donald Knuth b. 1938Technology & InventionWrote The Art of Computer Programming and created the TeX typesetting system.

John McCarthy 1927–2011Technology & InventionCoined the term artificial intelligence and created the Lisp programming language.

Charles Proteus Steinmetz 1865–1923Engineering & ArchitectureElectrical engineer whose work on alternating current systems powered the electrification of America.