Max Newman

Max Newman
Max Newman in North Wales, c. 1950
Born
Maxwell Herman Alexander Neumann

(1897-02-07)7 February 1897
Chelsea, London
Died22 February 1984(1984-02-22) (aged 87)
Cambridge
NationalityBritish
Alma materSt John's College, Cambridge
Known forElements of the topology of plane sets of points
Newman's lemma
Newmanry section at Bletchley Park
Heath Robinson (codebreaking machine)
Colossus computer
Newman problem
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society (1939)
Sylvester Medal (1958)
De Morgan Medal (1962)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsSt John's College, Cambridge
University of Manchester
Princeton University
Doctoral studentsThomas Graham, Hubert Griffiths, Sze-Tsen Hu, Gilbert Robinson, Hsien Chung Wang

Maxwell Herman Alexander "Max" Newman, FRS (7 February 1897 – 22 February 1984) was a British mathematician and codebreaker. He was Jewish. He started the Royal Society Computing Machine Laboratory at the University of Manchester. This laboratory made the first working modern computer. The computer stored programs in 1948. This computer was called the Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine.

References

  1. 1 2 Wylie, Shaun (2004). "Newman , Maxwell Herman Alexander (1897–1984)". In Good, I. J (ed.). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31494. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ↑ Newman, Max (1939). Elements of the topology of plane sets of points. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-24956-3. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  3. 1 2 Adams, J. F. (1985). "Maxwell Herman Alexander Newman. 7 February 1897-22 February 1984". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 31 (31): 436–426. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1985.0015. S2CID 62649711.
  4. ↑ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Max Newman", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
  5. ↑ Max Newman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ↑ Jack Copeland. "The Modern History of Computing". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved 30 Mar 2012.
  7. ↑ The Papers of Max Newman Archived 2007-06-17 at the Wayback Machine, St John's College Library
  8. ↑ The Newman Digital Archive Archived 2009-01-06 at the Wayback Machine, St John's College Library & The University of Portsmouth
  9. ↑ Anderson, David (2013). "Max Newman: Forgotten Man of Early British Computing". Communications of the ACM. 56 (5): 29–31. doi:10.1145/2447976.2447986. S2CID 1904488.
  10. ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic