Editing Seymour Papert (section)

==Early years and education==
Born to a Jewish family,<ref name="forward.com">{{Cite web |date=2016-08-03 |title=Remembering Seymour Papert: Revolutionary Socialist and Father of A.I. |url=https://forward.com/culture/346666/remembering-seymour-papert-revolutionary-socialist-and-father-of-ai/ |access-date=2023-09-05 |website=The Forward |language=en}}</ref> Papert attended the [[University of the Witwatersrand]], receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy in 1949 followed by a PhD in mathematics in 1952.<ref name=mathgene/><ref name=papertphd>{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |first=Seymour Aubrey|last=Papert |title=Sequential Convergence in Lattices With Special Reference To Modular And Subgroup Lattices |publisher=University of the Witwatersrand |year=1952 |oclc=775688121}}</ref> He then went on to receive a second doctorate,<ref name=NatureObituary/> also in mathematics, at the [[University of Cambridge]] (1959),<ref name=papertphd2>{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |first=Seymour Aubrey|last=Papert |title=The lattices of logic and topology|publisher=University of the Cambridge |year=1960 |id={{ProQuest|301315242}}}} {{subscription required}}</ref> supervised by [[Frank Smithies]].<ref name="who's who">Papert, Seymour A. in ''American Men and Women of Science'', R.R. Bowker. (1998–99, 20th ed). p. 1056.</ref>