Bill Gosper
R. William "Bill" Gosper, Jr. (born April 26, 1943 ) is an American mathematician and programmer.
Gosper was one of the hackers at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and co-authored with Michael Beeler and Richard Schroeppel of HAKMEM (1972), a collection of hacking anecdotes and facts published as one of the memos from MIT's AI Lab.
Gosper has developed an intense interest in Conway's Game of Life , and with the Gosper glider cannon named after him, he has shown that continuous, infinite growth is possible in the Game of Life simulation. With it he won an award given by John Horton Conway , the inventor of the game.
He was best known for the development of the Gosper algorithm , which allows closed expressions to be found for binomial series and to calculate them more easily. He was also known for his work on continued fractions as representatives of real numbers and the Gosper curve .
literature
- Donald J. Albers, GL Alexanderson, Constance Reid More Mathematical People - Contemporary Conversations , Academic Press 1994
Web links
- Personal web page (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gosper, Bill |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gosper, R. William Jr. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician and programmer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 26, 1943 |