Great results in science and engineering are "bunched" in the same person too often for success to be a matter of random luck. - Richard Hamming

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Great results in science and engineering are "bunched" in the same person too often for success to be a matter of random luck.

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About Richard Hamming

Richard Wesley Hamming (February 11, 1915 – January 7, 1998) was an American mathematician whose work had many implications for computer science and telecommunications. He received the 1968 Turing Award "for his work on numerical methods, automatic coding systems, and error-detecting and error-correcting codes."

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Native Name: Richard Wesley Hamming
Alternative Names: Richard W. Hamming
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When you take a course in Euclidean geometry is not the teacher putting a... learning program into you? ...You enter the course and cannot do problems; the teacher puts into you a program and at the end of the course you can solve such problems. ...Are you sure you are not merely "programmed" in life by what by chance events happens to you?

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