Ramon Llull

Name: Ramon Llull

Born: c. 1232 in City of Mallorca (now Palma), Kingdom of Majorca

Death: c. 1315 (Age: 83)

Computer-related contributions

• Writer, poet, theologian, mystic, mathematician, logician, and martyr.
• Often called a pioneer of computation theory.
• Pioneered work in election theory.

Significant publications

• The Book of the Lover and the Beloved.
• Blanquerna (1283).
• Desconort (on the superiority of reason).
• Liber de Lumine (The Book of Light).

Honors and awards

• Beatified in 1857 by Pope Pius IX and his feast day was assigned to 30 June and is celebrated by the Third Order of St. Francis.