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Adele Goldstine

1920 - 1964

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Adele Goldstine (née Katz; December 21, 1920 – November 1964) was an American mathematician and computer programmer. She wrote the manual for the first electronic digital computer, ENIAC. Through her programming work, she was instrumental in converting the ENIAC from a computer that required reprogramming each time it was used to one capable of performing a set of fifty stored instructions. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adele Goldstine is the 882nd most popular mathematician (up from 897th in 2019), the 9,696th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,069th in 2019) and the 70th most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Adele Goldstine ranks 882 out of 1,004. Before her are Andrzej Mostowski, Anatoly Maltsev, Ngô Bảo Châu, Garrett Birkhoff, Kenneth Appel, and James Lighthill. After her are Herman Chernoff, Juliusz Schauder, J. H. C. Whitehead, Robin Hartshorne, Radhanath Sikdar, and Phillip Griffiths.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Adele Goldstine ranks 389. Before her are Edera Cordiale, Pierre Jonquères d'Oriola, Irving Kristol, Doug Serrurier, Edy Reinalter, and Nguyễn Thị Định. After her are Georg Leber, Denton Cooley, Steve Seymour, Friedrich Waller, John Paul Stevens, and Kenneth McAlpine. Among people deceased in 1964, Adele Goldstine ranks 185. Before her are Fred Tootell, Robert Warwick, Guru Dutt, C. J. Hambro, Nuriye Ulviye Mevlan Civelek, and Olavi Paavolainen. After her are Lars Christensen, Charles Bouvier, Edward Van Sloan, Johnny Burnette, Ernest Hamilton, and Charilaos Vasilakos.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Adele Goldstine ranks 9,698 out of 20,380. Before her are Mary Brian (1906), John Bell Hood (1831), Clare Boothe Luce (1903), Chris Paul (1985), Gregory R. Wiseman (1975), and Yakima Canutt (1895). After her are Richard Bass (1929), Kim Kashkashian (1952), Herman Chernoff (1923), Jon Turteltaub (1963), Teddy Pendergrass (1950), and Rick Carlisle (1959).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Adele Goldstine ranks 70. Before her are Robert Daniel Carmichael (1879), Marston Morse (1892), Tom M. Apostol (1923), Michael Aschbacher (1944), Garrett Birkhoff (1911), and Kenneth Appel (1932). After her are Herman Chernoff (1923), Robin Hartshorne (1938), Phillip Griffiths (1938), Erna Schneider Hoover (1926), Gilbert Strang (1934), and George Mostow (1923).

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