Columbia, Missouri

Columbia is a city in central Missouri, United States, the seat of Boone County, lying roughly between St. Louis and Kansas City. Laid out in 1821, it is home to the University of Missouri, founded in 1839 as the first public university west of the Mississippi River, whose School of Journalism followed in 1908; the city has long been nicknamed the 'Athens of Missouri'. The mathematician Norbert Wiener was born here on 26 November 1894, the first child of Leo Wiener and Bertha Kahn.

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