The Boston Globe, April 20th, 1987
One night in the winter of 1937, a young theoretical physicist from Iowa State University at Ames got into his car and drove at top speed along the dark highways of the prairie. It was a way of relieving his weariness and depression. He had been thinking for some time about the possibility of finding an electronic method for solving complicated mathematical equations. His goals were clear, but for weeks he had made no progress toward achieving them. He was desperately unhappy. The driving relaxed him. At some point during the night he crossed the Mississippi River into Illinois and pulled into...
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