Feigenbaum is a German surname meaning "
fig tree
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Armand V. Feigenbaum
Armand Vallin Feigenbaum (April 6, 1920 – November 13, 2014) was an American quality control expert and businessman. He devised the concept of Total Quality Control which inspired Total Quality Management.
Biography
Feigenbaum, known as “ ...
(1922-2014), American quality control expert
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B. J. Feigenbaum
Bertram Joseph Feigenbaum (April 19, 1900 – January 21, 1984) was an American lawyer, who served in the California legislature. During World War I he served in the United States Army.
Early and personal life
Feigenbaum was born on April 19, ...
(1900-1984), American legislator and lawyer
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Clive Feigenbaum
Clive Harold Feigenbaum (1939–2007) was a colourful and controversial British businessman who was involved in a lifelong series of scandals in the world of philately. Particularly notable was the sale of "gold" stamps from Staffa and his role i ...
, stamp dealer
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Edward Feigenbaum
Edward Albert Feigenbaum (born January 20, 1936) is a computer scientist working in the field of artificial intelligence, and joint winner of the 1994 ACM Turing Award. He is often called the "father of expert systems."
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(born 1936), American computer scientist known as the "father of expert systems"
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Joan Feigenbaum
Joan Feigenbaum (born 1958 in Brooklyn, New York) is a theoretical computer scientist with a background in mathematics. She is the Grace Murray Hopper Professor of Computer Science at Yale University. At Yale she also holds a courtesy appointment ...
(born 1958), American computer scientist
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Mitchell Feigenbaum
Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum (December 19, 1944 – June 30, 2019) was an American mathematical physicist whose pioneering studies in chaos theory led to the discovery of the Feigenbaum constants.
Early life
Feigenbaum was born in Philadelphia, ...
(1944-2019), American mathematical physicist
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William M. Feigenbaum
William Morris Feigenbaum (December 25, 1886 – April 23, 1949) was an American statistician, journalist and politician from New York.
Life
He was born on December 25, 1886, in Antwerp, Belgium, the son of Benjamin Feigenbaum (1860–1932) (1886–1949), New York assemblyman, 1918
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Yehoshua Feigenbaum
Yehoshua "Shiye" Feigenbaum ( he, יהושע "שייע" פייגנבוים, born 5 December 1947) is a former Israeli football player. As a striker, he holds many records with Israel national football team.
Honours
As a Player
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(born 1947), Israeli footballer
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Eran Feigenbaum (born 1974), Israeli information security expert and mentalist
See also
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Feigenbaum function In the study of dynamical systems the term Feigenbaum function has been used to describe two different functions introduced by the physicist Mitchell Feigenbaum:
* the solution to the Feigenbaum-Cvitanović functional equation; and
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Feigenbaum constants
In mathematics, specifically bifurcation theory, the Feigenbaum constants are two mathematical constants which both express ratios in a bifurcation diagram for a non-linear map. They are named after the physicist Mitchell J. Feigenbaum.
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Jewish surnames
German-language surnames
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