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Carl Georg Barth
Norwegian-American mathematician / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the mathematician and mechanical engineer. For the Norwegian painter, see Carl Wilhelm Bøckmann Barth. For the theologian, see Karl Barth.
Carl Georg Lange Barth (February 28, 1860 – October 28, 1939) was a Norwegian-American mathematician, mechanical and consulting engineer, and lecturer at Harvard University. Barth is known as one of the foreman of scientific management, who improved and popularized the industrial use of compound slide rules.[1]
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