Abraham Stern (inventor)
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Abraham Stern (c.1760s–1842) was a Polish Jewish inventor from Warsaw. He is best known for his mechanical calculators.[1][2] He was a member of the Warsaw Society of Friends of Learning from 1830.
He was also a known opponent of Hasidic Judaism.[3]
Stern is buried in the Bródno Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw.
References
- ^ Herman H. Goldstine (2 September 2008). The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann. Princeton University Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-4008-2013-9.
- ^ Ioan Mackenzie James (2009). Driven to Innovate: A Century of Jewish Mathematicians and Physicists. Peter Lang. pp. 55–56. ISBN 978-1-906165-22-2.
- ^ Glenn Dynner (30 December 2008). Men of Silk: The Hasidic Conquest of Polish Jewish Society. Oxford University Press. p. 216. ISBN 978-0-19-538265-5.