Kemeny, John G.
Mathematician, Educator, and Philosopher 1926–1992
Devoting his career to mathematics and education, John G. Kemeny served as president of Dartmouth College for more than a deca...
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John George Kemeny
1926-1992
Hungarian computer scientist who, with Thomas Kurtz, developed the computer language BASIC. A far simpler language than FORTRAN, COBOL, or other languages that existed at ...
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John G. Kemeny, a mathematician and college president, pioneered "new math" and the use of computers in general education. As a teenager he worked with American mathematician John Neumann on the Unite...
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Born in Budapest, Hungary, Kemeny emigrated to the United States in 1940. He received his B.S. in mathematics from Princeton University and during World War II worked in the computing center of the Ma...
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Kemeny, John G
John George Kemeny
John G. Kemeny
John G. Kemeny