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john neper
The inventor of a computing tool is a logarithm table. The original device for quick multiplication (Napier sticks). -
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Created combinatorics as a science; math worked equally freely
He described the binary number system with numbers 0 and 1, on which modern computer technology is based. -
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Claude Chapp
The inventor of one of the methods of optical telegraph. Schapp's Optical Telegraph in Lithermont -
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Joseph Marie Jacquard
Inventor of a loom for patterned fabrics (Jacquard machine). Creation of a loom, controlled cards with punched holes on them for further development of computer technology. -
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Charles Babbage
Inventor of the first analytical computer. mechanical apparatus; designed to automate computing -
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Samuel Finley Morse Breeze
A well-known invention is the electromagnetic writing telegraph "Morse apparatus" and the Morse code. -
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Pafnutiy Lvovich Chebyshev
Introduces the scientific community with the asymptotic law of the distribution of primes. It applies mathematical methods to solving problems of practical mechanics. Thanks to him, it becomes not descriptive, but calculated.