Bill Gosper

R. William Gosper, Jr. ( born 1943 ), known as Bill Gosper, is an American mathematician and programmer.

Gosper was one of the hackers at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and co-author with Michael Beeler and Richard Schroeppel of HAKMEM (1972 ), a collection of hacking anecdotes and facts, published as one of the memos of the AI ​​Lab at MIT.

Gosper has developed an intense interest in Conway's game of life, and shown with the named after him Gosper glider gun, that a continuous, infinite growth in the Game of Life simulation is possible. He won a by John Horton Conway, the inventor of the game, prive.

He was known primarily for the development of the Gosper algorithm that makes it possible to find closed expressions for these Binomialreihen and easier to calculate. He was also known for his work on continued fractions as representatives of real numbers and the Gosper curve.

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