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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Herbert Simon, Vernor Vinge, Thomas Fincke, Sarvadaman Chowla, Milan Raspopovi, Nathan Daboll, John Maclean, Jr., Dirk Jan Struik, John George Kemeny, Friedrich L. Bauer, Sr an Ognjanovi, Kate Bellingham, Kathleen Ollerenshaw, Vladimir Miklyukov, John Robert Anderson, Willebrord Snellius, Adrian Smith, Etta Zuber Falconer, Gilbert Strang, John Hiram Lathrop, Max Mason, George Piranian, David O. Tall, Peder Horrebow, Murray S. Klamkin, David Jesson, Lee Stiff, Clarence F. Stephens, Carl August von Steinheil, George Andrews, Virginia Ragsdale, George Marsaglia, Nikolay Konstantinov, Karl Seebach, Dan Grimaldi, Scott W. Williams, Gwynneth Coogan, Jean-Louis Calandrini, Philipp von Jolly, Felix Otto, John Irwin Hutchinson, Zalman Usiskin, Lucjan Zarzecki, Luis Radford, Neil R. Grabois, John Harnad, Claudia Zaslavsky, David Klein, Michael Anderson, Stuart J. Murphy. Excerpt: Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916 - February 9, 2001) was an American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and psychologist, and professor-most notably at Carnegie Mellon University-whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, cognitive science, computer science, public administration, economics, management, philosophy of science, sociology, and political science. With almost a thousand very highly cited publications, he is one of the most influential social scientists of the 20th century. Simon was among the founding fathers of several of today's important scientific domains, including artificial intelligence, information processing, decision-making, problem-solving, attention economics, organization theory, complex systems, and computer simulation of scientific discovery. He coined the terms bounded rationality and satisficing, and was the first to analyze the architecture of complexity and to propose a preferenti...
