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