Interesting History

Euclid's Elements, 1st Century

One of the earliest versions of a geometric diagram, in a papyrus fragment dating to the first century of the common era.

It illustrates Proposition 5 in Book II of the Elements of Euclid.

Antikythera Mechanism, 150 BC

National Archaeological Museum, Athens, 2014.

Nyquist article 1928

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Turing_Paper_1936.pdf

CHRONOLOGICAL LISTING OF A.M. TURING AWARD WINNERS

http://amturing.acm.org/byyear.cfm

Shannon article 1948