Contributions

Here you can find information about the different Poles that have contributed to computing. Choose one of the pictures below to retrieve relevant information.

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Hardware

Jewna Jakobson

Invention of a mechanical calculating machine

Abraham Stern

The Mathematical Machine (1817)

Zelig Slonimski

Invention of a multiplication machine (1840)

Abraham I. Staffel

Invention of an arithmetic machine for four operations and a square root (1844)

Bruno Abdank-Abankanowicz

Invention of an integraph (1878)

Theory

Jan Łukasiewicz

Invention of the Polish Notation in 1924

Marian Rejewski

Breaking the German Enigma cipher in 1932-33

Stanislaw Marcin Ulam

Invention of the Monte Carlo method in 1947

Zdzislaw Pawlak

Invention of the rough set theory in 1981

Post-War Developments

Post-war Developments

At Home. Marczyński and Łukaszewicz

Abroad. Jan Rajchman

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