Alan MacEachren vs. Richard Hamming
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Alan MacEachren
1952 – present
Alan M. MacEachren is an American geographer, Professor of Geography and Director, GeoVISTA Center, Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University. He is known for his cross-disciplinary work in the fields of human-centered geographic visualization, scientific and information visualization, and in statistics.
"The representational nature of maps, however, is often ignored – what we see when looking at a map is not the word, but an abstract representation that we find …"
Richard Hamming
1915 – 1998
Richard Wesley Hamming was an American mathematician whose work had many implications for computer engineering and telecommunications. His contributions include the Hamming code, the Hamming window, Hamming numbers, sphere-packing, Hamming graph concepts, and the Hamming distance.
"A central problem in teaching mathematics is to communicate a reasonable sense of taste—meaning often when to, or not to, generalize, abstract, or extend someth…"
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