Max Mathews

Max Vernon Mathews (November 13, 1926 – April 21, 2011) was an American pioneer of computer music.

Max Vernon Mathews was born on November 13, 1926, in Columbus, Nebraska, to two science schoolteachers. He attended, but did not graduate from, Peru High School in Peru, Nebraska, where his parents taught and his father was also the principal. His father allowed him to play and work in the school's science laboratories from a young age.
After a period as a radar repairman in the United States Navy, where he fell in love with electronics, Mathews studied electrical engineering at the… More on Wikipedia →