Idea Makers by Stephen Woldfram

I just read the book Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the lives Ideas of some notable People by Stephen Wolfram and it is amazing. Here some of my takeaways

• John von Newumann: when John died He left his daughter a Box that should be opened on the 50th anniversary of his death, his Daughter emailed Stephen that disappointingly the box was not John von Newman’s at all!

• There is a lot much more about Ada Lovelace, the first programmer. Although she was a tenacious, smart and hardworking woman, His father was the poet Lord Byron and Lady Byron(a Baroness), She met Charles Babbage at a facy party at his house. She like mathematics and spend her time translating writings from other mathematicians, She got interested in the Charles Babbage’s mechanical calculator and colaborated with Him on creating notes of charle’s designs, this notes were intented to add clarity to use Charles Babdage’s Machine.

  Sadly Ada had health problems and died young, previously to her death, Ada & her husband piched to Charles the idea of creating a company to complete his machine, He had governed founding, but because of the lack of results it was cut, Charles did not accepted.

• Gottfried Leibniz had also the idea of an universal calculator, in his papers are all sorts of diagrams about how the machine should work, the strange thing is that eventhough He wrote about binary numbers, He based his design on base 10, instead of the much simpler binary approach we use today.

• Salomon Golomb most our modern communications uses Golomb’s
  maximum-length linear-feedback shift register sequence, it is probably the most used math algorithm in the world