The South African mathematician who went to MIT and co-created the language many programmers learned to code with

• Seymour Papert, a South African mathematician, co-created the Logo programming language in 1967.
• Seymour Papert was born in Pretoria, South Africa in 1928 and went on to study at the University of Cambridge, earning his second doctorate, before co-developing the Logo programming language.
• Papert's work in education theory and pioneering artificial intelligence research had a lasting impact, and he was a principal for the One Laptop Per Child initiative.