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If you have a large number of unrelated ideas, you have to get quite a distance away from them to get a view of all of them, and this is the role of abstraction. If you look at each too closely you see too many details. If you get far away things may appear simpler because you can only see the large, broad outlines; you do not get lost in petty details.

John G. Kemeny

The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization.

John G. Kemeny

It is the greatest achievement of a teacher to enable his students to surpass him.

John G. Kemeny

John G. Kemeny

John G. Kemeny

Born: May 31, 1926

Died: December 26, 1992 (aged 66)

Bio: John George Kemeny was a Jewish-Hungarian American mathematician, computer scientist, and educator best known for co-developing the BASIC programming language in 1964 with Thomas E. Kurtz.

Known for:

Finite Markov Chains (1960)
Introduction to finite mathematics (1957)
Denumerable Markov chains (1966)
Man and the Computer (1972)
Mathematical models in the social sciences (1962)

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