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Newman's lemma Newmanry section at Bletchley Park Heath Robinson (codebreaking machine) Colossus computer}} Maxwell Herman Alexander "Max" Newman, FRS (7 February 1897 – 22 February 1984) was a British mathematician and codebreaker. His work in World War II led to the construction of Colossus, the world's first operational, programmable electronic computer, and he established the Royal Society Computing Machine Laboratory at the University of Manchester which produced the world's first working, modern stored program electronic computer in 1948, the Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine.〔 〕〔(The Papers of Max Newman ), St John's College Library〕〔(The Newman Digital Archive ), St John's College Library & The University of Portsmouth〕 ==Education and early life== Max Newman was born Maxwell Neumann in Chelsea, London, England to a Jewish family, on 7 February 1897.〔 His father was Herman Alexander Neumann, originally from the German city of Bromberg (now in Poland) who had emigrated with his family to London at the age of 15.〔William Newman, "Max Newman – Mathematician, Codebreaker and Computer Pioneer", pp. 176-188 in 〕 Herman worked as a secretary in a company, and married Sarah Ann (Pike), an English schoolteacher, in 1896.〔 The family moved to Dulwich in 1903, and Newman attended Goodrich Road school, then City of London School from 1908.〔 At school, he excelled in classics and in mathematics. He played chess and the piano well. Newman won a scholarship to study mathematics at St John's College, Cambridge in 1915, and in 1916 gained a First in Part I of the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Max Newman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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