Abraham Stern (inventor)

Portrait of Abraham Stern
by Antoni Blank (1823)

Abraham Stern (c.1760s–1842) was a Polish Jewish inventor from Warsaw. He is best known for his mechanical calculators.^[1][2] He was a member of the Warsaw Society of Friends of Learning from 1830.

He was also a known opponent of Hasidic Judaism.^[3]

Stern is buried in the Bródno Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw.

References

1. Herman H. Goldstine (2 September 2008). The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann. Princeton University Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-4008-2013-9.
2. Ioan Mackenzie James (2009). Driven to Innovate: A Century of Jewish Mathematicians and Physicists. Peter Lang. pp. 55–56. ISBN 978-1-906165-22-2.
3. Glenn Dynner (30 December 2008). Men of Silk: The Hasidic Conquest of Polish Jewish Society. Oxford University Press. p. 216. ISBN 978-0-19-538265-5.

External works

• Bibliography of works