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Abstract

After serving in the US Navy in the Second World War, he earned a degree in mathematics in 1950 from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he impressed the mathematician Andrew Gleason by proving fixed-point theorems in topology.

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Title
Marvin L. Minsky (1927-2016)
Author
Winston, Patrick Henry
Pages
282
Section
COMMENT: OBITUARY
Publication year
2016
Publication date
Feb 18, 2016
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
ISSN
00280836
e-ISSN
14764687
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/530282a
ProQuest document ID
1767026829
Copyright
Copyright Nature Publishing Group Feb 18, 2016