who is the father of library Science?
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S. R. Ranganathan, considered by librarians all over India to be the father of library science
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antoine-laurent de lavoisier, of course, who is also considered the father of modern chemistry.\ndue to his prominence in the french government, he was beheaded by revolutionists later... shame, really
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um ask the librarian?
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Bill Gates.\n\nNo question about it. Fully documented.
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Lagrange is considered the father of calculus.
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Charles Babbage\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage
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Charles Babbage is known as the father of modern computer science.
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Adolph Rupp\n\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_Rupp
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The real tragedy of course is not the uncertainty of knowing who to blame for the Library's destruction but that so much of ancient history, literature and learning was lost foreverThe library's collection was already famous in the ancient world, and became even more storied in later years. It is impossible, however, to determine how large the collection was in any era. The collection was made of papyrus scrolls. Later, parchment codices (predominant as a writing material after 300 AD) may have been substituted for papyrus. A single piece of writing might occupy several scrolls, and this division into self-contained "books" was a major aspect of editorial work. King Ptolemy II Philadelphus (309–246 BC) is said to have set 500,000 scrolls as an objective[citation needed]. Mark Antony was supposed to have given Cleopatra over 200,000 scrolls for the Library.\n\nNo index of the library survives, and it is not possible to know with certainty how large and how diverse the collection was. It is likely, for example, that even if the library had hundreds of thousands of scrolls (and thus, perhaps, tens of thousands of individual works), that many of these were duplicate copies or alternate versions of the same texts.\nWhat was lost? We will never know, though there are tantalizing hints: Plays by Euripides and Sophocles that we know about from mentions by the Romans but for which no manuscripts exist. \n\nPerhaps there were the orations of Demosthenes and an account of the construction of the pyramids.\n\nCertainly we lost comprehensive Greek theories of physics, grammar and philosophy; and commentaries by Phoenician explorers, Hittite conquerors and Persian clerics.\n\nPossibly the library contained an accurate description of the destruction of Minoan civilization in 1400 BC by the volcano called Thera – an event some scholars say was the basis of the myth of Atlantis.\n\nA civilized person gasps at the loss and sighs with regret at all of the what-might-have-beens that come flooding to mind. Where might our science and art have been if the treasures of that library had escaped destruction?\n\nLong live the Library of Alexandria\n\nTwo thousand years from now, we may have a different answer to that question, thanks to UNESCO and the Egyptian government. In 1999, four years after its construction began, and 1,300 years after the final destruction of its predecessor, the new Library of Alexandria opened. \n\nCalled the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the soaring 11-story structure stands on a 21.5-acre site near where the legendary pharos (lighthouse) of Alexandria once stood. The $170-million complex includes reading rooms, conference facilities, classrooms, laboratories, theaters, a museum and planetarium. \n\nWith 600,000 square feet of space, the successor library contains as much working space as a medium-sized skyscraper.\n\nAs modern scholars begin duplicating the habits of their ancient counterparts by gathering in Alexandria at a superb research facility, a tradition broken by centuries of darkness is revived, phoenix-like.
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Bill Gates??  No way!!  He has a gift to make money out of technology, but he's no mathematician, neither a technology guru.\n\nI suggest Alan Turing, British mathematician who is considered the father of computer science.  Modern computers are all based on principles of his "Turing Machine".
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Plato, I guess. the Question is too vague. Plato's geocentric system was refuted by Copernicus, but the Catholic Church refused to accept Copernicus's findings.
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He created the Dewey decimal system. He's the reason your local library is arranged the way it is.
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Carl Friedrich Gauss (30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician and scientist of profound genius who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, magnetism, astronomy and optics. Sometimes known as "the prince of mathematicians", Gauss had a remarkable influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked beside Euler, Newton and Archimedes as one of history's greatest mathematicians.
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What do you want to know?  He is considered the father of experimental chemistry.  He is credited with describing the Law of Conservation of Mass.
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A great one would be Euclid, a Greek geometer who wrote the "Elements", the world's most definitive text on geometry. The book synthesized earlier knowledge about geometry, and was used for centuries in western Europe as a geometry textbook. \n\nhttp://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Euclid.html\nhttp://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Euclid.html\nhttp://mathworld.wolfram.com/Elements.html
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"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain."\n--  John Adams
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Hmmm!  tie between Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein.  Simply mention their names...