John George Kemeny
Jewish-Hungarian American mathematician, computer scientist, educator, and President of Dartmouth College
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- Born
- 1926
- Died
- 1992
- Works
- 74
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- Introduction to finite mathematics
- Pre-calculus, version 3.0.
- Random essays on mathematics, education, and computers
- Finite Mathematical Structures
- Finite Markov Chains
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John George Kemeny (born Kemény János György; May 31, 1926 – December 26, 1992) was a Hungarian-born American mathematician, computer scientist, and educator best known for co-developing the BASIC programming language in 1964 with Thomas E. Kurtz. Kemeny served as the 13th President of Dartmouth College from 1970 to 1981 and pioneered the use of computers in college education. Kemeny chaired the presidential commission that investigated the Three Mile Island accident in 1979. According to György Marx he was one of "The Martians".
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1926 births1992 deaths20th-century American academics20th-century American Jews20th-century American mathematicians20th-century Hungarian JewsAmerican computer scientistsAmerican mathematics educatorsAmerican people of Hungarian-Jewish descentBASIC programming languageDartmouth College facultyGeorge Washington Educational Campus alumni