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Or indeed Claude Shannon.

• tripzilch 13y ago
  Shannon is more like the Feynmann of Computer Science: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon#Hobbies_and_inventions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon#Hobbies_and_inve...
  • arithma 13y ago
    The fixed point is, of course, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann‎
  • mheathr 13y ago
    Shannon was an electrical engineer by training and while all of his works have applications in computer science, their origins were solutions to engineering or math problems.