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Kruskal (author of the kruskal algorithm) won. edit: pardon, wrong Kruskal Joseph Kruskal had two notable brothers, Martin David Kruskal, co-inventor of solit
by dvh 3y ago
Kruskal (author of the kruskal algorithm) won.
edit: pardon, wrong Kruskal
Joseph Kruskal had two notable brothers, Martin David Kruskal, co-inventor of solitons, and William Kruskal, who developed the Kruskal–Wallis one-way analysis of variance. One of Joseph Kruskal's nephews is notable computer scientist and professor Clyde Kruskal.
- pavel_lishin 3y agoAnd apparently his mother popularized origami in America! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Oppenheimer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Oppenheimer
- mturmon 3y agoAmazing stuff! And origami is not unrelated to (hexa)flexagons, which are a perennial HN favorite and also a math/physics fascination (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexagon#Discovery_and_introduction_of_the_hexaflexagon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexagon#Discovery_and_introdu...)
- thriftwy 3y agoThis one seems to be the author of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruskal–Szekeres_coordinates https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruskal–Szekeres_coordinates Which are great at challenging commonly held beliefs about black holes.