Merge sort
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Merge sort is an efficient, general-purpose, comparison-based sorting algorithm. Most implementations of merge sort are stable, which means that the relative order of equal elements is the same betwee
Merge sort type algorithms allowed large data sets to be sorted on early computers that had small random access memories by modern standards. Records were stored on magnetic tape and processed on banks of magnetic tape drives, such as these IBM 729s.
Herman Goldstine
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Herman Heine Goldstine was a mathematician and computer scientist, who worked as the director of the IAS machine at the Institute for Advanced Study and helped to develop ENIAC, the first of the moder
Merge sort
…algorithm that was invented by John von Neumann in 1945. A detailed description and analysis of bottom-up merge sort appeared in a report by Goldstine and von Neumann as early as 1948. Conceptually, a merge sort works as follows…
Capt. Herman H. Goldstine
Herman Goldstine at The Princeton Institute for Advanced Study (left to right: Julian Bigelow, Herman Goldstine, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and John von Neumann)