He [Abraham Robinson] was born to a Jewish family with strong Zionist beliefs, in Waldenburg, Germany, which is now Wałbrzych, in Poland.

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Abraham Robinson

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Wikipedia contributors. (2024, May 21). Abraham Robinson. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 00:29, November 25, 2024, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham_Robinson&oldid=1224894257

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[Ed Roberts] pitched Solomon [Les Solomon, editor at Popular Electronics] a promise that he could build a computer around the new, more powerful Intel 8080 processor. This pitch became Altair—named, according to legend, by Solomon’s daughter, after the destination of the Enterprise in the Star Trek episode “Amok Time”—and it set the hobby electronics world on fire when it appeared as the January 1975 Popular Electronics cover story.

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Abraham Robinson (Wikipedia) Abraham Robinson (born Robinsohn; October 6, 1918 – April 11, 1974) was a mathematician who is most widely known for development of nonstandard analysis, a mathematically rigorous system whereby infinitesimal and infinite numbers were reincorporated into modern mathematics. Nearly half of Robinson’s papers were in applied mathematics rather than in pure mathematics.

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1918-10-06