Computer Scientist and Author
Frederick Brooks (1931 to 2022) was an American computer scientist and Turing Award recipient who managed the development of IBM's System/360 and founded the Computer Science Department at the University of North Carolina. His classic book The Mythical Man-Month, first published in 1975, introduced Brooks's Law and remains one of the most influential works in software engineering.
by Frederick Brooks
Brooks argues that adding more programmers to a late project makes it later - a principle now known as Brooks' Law. The deeper insight: software complexity grows faster than headcount, making communication the real bottleneck.
The books Frederick Brooks references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Thomas Kuhn
Kuhn argues that science doesn't progress through steady accumulation but through paradigm shifts - revolutionary breaks where the entire framework changes. Normal science solves puzzles until anomalies trigger a crisis.
Who Frederick draws from, and who draws from Frederick — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.