Richard W. Hamming (1915–1998)
Auteur de The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
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Œuvres de Richard W. Hamming
Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (Dover Books on Mathematics) (1985) 54 exemplaires
You and Your Research 4 exemplaires
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering 1 exemplaire
Digital Filters 1 exemplaire
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- Nom légal
- Hamming, Richard Wesley
- Date de naissance
- 1915-02-11
- Date de décès
- 1998-01-07
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Monterey, California, USA
- Études
- University of Illinois (PhD)
University of Nebraska (MA)
University of Chicago (BS) - Professions
- mathematician
- Organisations
- IEEE (Fellow, 1968)
National Academy of Engineering (Member, 1980)
ACM (Fellow, 1994) - Prix et distinctions
- Turing Award (1968)
IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (1979)
IEEE Computer Pioneer Award (Charter)
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- Œuvres
- 13
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 790
- Popularité
- #32,237
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 32
- Langues
- 1
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- 1
This book is excellent excellent excellent. The thesis is that a life lived without producing excellent work isn't one worth living. Hamming describes the book as a manual of style; while university is good at teaching technical skills, it's not very good at teaching the important stuff that falls /between/ the discrete subjects. Like how to choose important problems to work on, or where insight comes from, or how to stay ahead of the trend and not become obsolete.
To this extent, Hamming talks about his own successes and failures (though mostly his successes --- he says it's more important to study success than failure, since you'd like to replicate only the former.) He's obviously proud of his accomplishments, which is a refreshing note from most technical autobiographies, in which the authors present a cool, modest description of their work. Hamming provides commentary behind each of his wins, describing the circumstances that lead to it, and how having a "prepared mind" helped him jump on it before others did. He further notes how he could have done better, and gives explicit advice to the reader for how to do a better job than he did.
This is a wonderfully insightful book, and is chocked full inspiration and interesting technical topics. If you're in a technical field and you'd like to do great work, this is mandatory reading.… (plus d'informations)