Person: Kemeny, John

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John Kemeny was a Hungarian-born American mathematician and computer scientist best known as the co-inventor of the BASIC computer language.

Mathematical Profile (Excerpt):

Born 31 May 1926, Budapest, Hungary. Died 26 December 1992, Etna, New Hampshire, USA.

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Origin Hungary


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Github:
bookofproofs
non-Github:
@J-J-O'Connor
@E-F-Robertson


References

Adapted from other CC BY-SA 4.0 Sources:

  1. O’Connor, John J; Robertson, Edmund F: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive