Grace Brewster Murray Hopper

1906 - 1992

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Grace Hopper was one of the pioneers in the development of the electronic computer. She is (probably) the only mathematician to have a warship named after her.
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List of References (12 books/articles)

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Mathematicians born in the same country

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  1. Encyclopaedia Britannica
  2. Agnes Scott College
  3. San Diego
  4. WISE project
  1. Virginia Tech
  2. Washington DC
  3. Arlington (USN destroyer named (1997) after Hopper)
  4. Mathematical Genealogy Project
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