| | | Introduction |
| Richard | Feyman | The physicist that Wouk interviewed about making bombs. |
| Herman | Wouk | A novelist. |
| Isaac | Newton | Discovered calculus. One of the
greatest scientists of all time. |
| Michael | Faraday | An English scientist. |
| Andre-Marie | Ampere | A founder of the science of classical electromagnetism. |
| James Clerk | Maxwell | A Scottish mathematical physicist. |
| Heinrich | Hertz | A man who proved Maxwell's theory of electromagnetic light. |
| Albert | Einstein | A theoretical physicist. |
| Eugene | Wigner | A Hungarian-American physicist. |
| Johannes | Kepler | The astronomer. |
| Paul | Dirac | The physicist. |
| Thomas | Jefferson | The 3rd U.S. President. |
| Katherine | Johnson | An African-American mathematician who worked at NASA. |
| | | LASER - Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. |
1 | Archimedes | | A Greek mathematician. |
| Ms. | Stanton | Steven's eighth grade math teacher. |
| Aristotle | | A Greek philosopher. Plato's student. |
| Giordano | Monk | The renegade monk who was burned alive. |
| Zeno | Of Elea | A brave philosopher during (C.490-430 BCE). |
| Bertrand | Russell | A British philosopher. |
| Plato | | An Athenian philosopher. |
| Erwin | Schrodinger | The Austrian physicist. |
| Max | Planck | The father of quantum theory. |
2 | Plutarch | | The historian. |
| Vitruvius | | A roman architect. |
| Eudoxus | | The Greek mathematician. |
| Pythagoras | | A Greek philosopher. |
| Eratosthenes | | Archimedes's friend. The librarian at Alexandria. |
| Leonardo | Da Vinci | An Italian polymath. |
| Galileo | Galilei | Father of
observational astronomy. |
| James | Cameron | A Canadian film maker. |
| Steve | Jobs | Pixar's co-founder. |
| Shrek | | Dreamworks's heroic ogre. |
| Peter | Deuflhard | A German-applied mathematician. |
| Martin | Weiser | A German-applied mathematician. |
| Stefan | Zachow | A German-applied mathematician. |
| | | CT - Computerized Tomography. |
| | | MRI - Magnetic Resonance Imaging. |
3 | Tunc | Tezel | The astrophotographer. |
| Aristarchus | | The ancient Greek astronomer. |
| Ptolemy | | Greek astronomer who modified Aristarchus theory. |
| Andreas | Vesalius | Flemish
doctor made findings about human anatomy. |
| Nicolaus | Copernicus | Published a theory that the earth moves around the sun. |
| Giordano | Bruno | An Italian philosopher. |
| Euclid | | A Greek mathematician. |
| Marina | Gamba | Galileo's wife. |
| Virginia | Galilei | Galileo and Marina's eldest daughter. |
| Maria Celeste | Galilei | Galileo and Marina's daughter. |
| Vicenzo | Viviani | Galileo's first and most devoted biographer. |
| Christiaan | Huygens | The inventor of the first pendulum swing. |
| Brian | Josephson | A man who theorized the Josephson Junction. |
| John | Harrison | The inventor of Marine Chronometer. |
| Tycho | Brahe | A Danish man. |
| William | Gilbert | An English physician. Aka: Gilberd. |
| Rene | Descartes | The French polymath who designated the XYZ for the unknowns. |
4 | Thales | | The founding father of Greek mythology. |
| Liu | Hui | The Chinese geometer. |
| Zu | Chongzhi | The man who calculated the pi. |
| Alhazen | | The physicist of the golden age. Aka: Hasan Ibn Al-haytham. |
| Francois | Viete | Mathematician designated unknown quantities with vowels. |
| Simon | Stevin | A man who improved the arithmetic. |
| Evangelista | Torricelli | Galileo's student. |
| Bonaventura | Cavalieri | Galileo's student. |
| Pierre | De Fermat | A mathematician. Rene Descartes's rival. |
| Marin | Mersenne | A mathematician. Rene Descartes's rival. |
| Willebord | Snell | The Dutch scientist. |
| Thomas | Harriot | The English astronomer. |
| Marin | C. D. Chambre | Fermat's colleague. |
| Gottfried W. | Leibniz | German philosopher.
Forerunner for title Father of Calculus. |
5 | Bernie | Sanders | The Senator. |
| John | Napier | The Scottish mathematician. |
6 | Leah | Strogatz | Steven's daughter. |
| Usain | Bolt | An Olympic athlete. |
| Pablo | Picasso | A Spanish painter. |
7 | William | Heytesbury | A philosopher and logician at Merton College. |
| Isaac | Newton Sr. | Isaac Newton's father. |
| Hannah | Newton | Isaac Newton's mother. |
| Barnabas | Smith | Isaac Newton's step-father. |
| William | Clark | An apothecary and chemist. |
| Henry | Stokes | The schoolmaster who taught Isaac Latin. |
| Jyesthadeva | | Astronomer at the Kerala School of Mathematics. |
| Nilakantha | Somayaji | Astronomer at the Kerala School of Mathematics. |
| Madhava | Sangamagrama | The founder of Kerala School of Mathematics. |
| Thomas | Hobbes | A political philosopher and second-rate mathematician. |
| Nicholas | Mercator | A man who published a book about logarithms in 1668. |
| Isaac | Barrow | The first lucasian professor. |
8 | John | Collins | The mathematical wannabe and impresario. |
| Georg | Bohr | A Danish mathematician. |
| Henry | Oldenburg | A promoter of science. |
| Johann | Bernoulli | A Swiss mathematician. |
| | | HIV - Human Immunodeficiency Virus. |
| David | Ho | A man who led the team of researchers to treat HIV. |
| Alan | Perelson | A mathematical immunologist. David Ho's colleague. |
9 | Edmond | Halley | Isaac Newton's friend. |
| John | Glenn | The first man to orbit the earth. |
| | | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration. |
| John | Adams | Thomas Jefferson's friend. |
| | | BOEING - The largest aerospace company. |
10 | Jean | B. J. Fourier | A French mathematician. |
| Ernst | Chladni | A musical instrument maker. |
| Joseph Louis | LaGrange | A mathematician. |
| Sophie | Germain | A French mathematician. |
| Carl | F. Gauss | A man who used the pseudonym Antoine Le Blanc. |
| Percy | Spencer | The inventor of the microwave oven. |
| Allan | Cormack | The inventor of a theory about CT Scan. |
| Godfrey | Housnfield | A man who
won the Nobel Prize in physiology. |
| Johann | Radon | An Austrian mathematician. |
| Todd | Quinto | Cormack's colleague. |
11 | Brock | Fuller | Created 1st math description of 3D contortions of DNA. |
| Pierre Simon | LaPlace | A French mathematician and astronomer. |
| Henri | Poincare | A French mathematician in the 1800s. |
| Sofia | Kovalevskaya | A Russian mathematician. |
| Karl | Weierstrass | A German mathematician. |
| John | Littlewood | A British mathematician. |
| Mary | Cartwright | First female mathematician elected to the Royal Society. |
| | | ENIAC - Electric Numerical Integrator and Computer. |
| Hodgkin | | Won Nobel Prize for ionic basis of how cells work. |
| Garry | Kasparov | The human chess champion. |
| Paul | Erdos | A Hungarian mathematician. |