Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

male, deceased (1879) (ULM, Germany)
e=mc2, genius, Nobel Prize in Physics, theory of relativity, German, smart…Erdős number 2, German 2
This German born physicist is considered one of the world's greatest thinkers in history. Not only did he shape the way people think of time,...
Donald Knuth

Donald Knuth

male, 71 years old (Stanford, California, United States)
computer scientist, Turing Award laureate, mathematician, Emacs user, The Art of Computer Programming, computer pioneer…Erdős number 2
Don's father was a Lutheran school teacher and church organist. Don studied piano, and for a brief time organ, through high school. Later as a...
Bernard Chazelle

Bernard Chazelle

male, 54 years old (Princeton, New Jersey, United States)
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Erdős number 2, INRIA, Applied Mathematics, Ecole Normale Superieure, Ecole des Mines de Paris
Bernard Chazelle (born November 5, 1955) is a professor of computer science at Princeton University. Although he is best known for his invention of...
Richard Karp

Richard Karp

male, 74 years old (Berkeley, California, United States)
Turing Award laureate, Erdős number 2, Association for Computing Machinery, fellow, Harvard Centennial Medal recipient, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
Richard M. Karp was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1935 and was educated at the Boston Latin School and Harvard University, where he received his...
Madhu Sudan

Madhu Sudan

male, 43 years old
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, chennai, Gödel Prize laureate, iit delhi, Tamil American, Association for Computing Machinery…Erdős number 2
Madhu Sudan is an Indian computer scientist, professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of MIT...
G. H. Hardy

G. H. Hardy

male, deceased (1947)
Old Cranleighan, Tripos Wranglers, FRS, Mathematical analyst, atheist, layman…Number theorist, Erdős number 2, number theory
Professor Godfrey Harold Hardy FRS (February 7, 1877 - December 1, 1947) was a prominent English mathematician, known for his achievements in...
Ron Rivest

Ron Rivest

male, 62 years old
RSA, public-key, computer scientist, modern cryptographer, Turing Award laureate, From Schenectady…Erdős number 2
Professor Ronald Lorin Rivest (born 1947, Schenectady, New York) is a cryptographer, and is the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Computer...
Shafi Goldwasser

Shafi Goldwasser

female, 51 years old (Princeton, New Jersey, United States)
ph.d, Israeli, theory of computation, computer scientist, cryptography, modern cryptographer…Erdős number 2, computational number theory
Shafrira Goldwasser (born 1958) is the RSA Professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, and a professor of mathematical...
Dana Scott

Dana Scott

male, 77 years old
Turing Award laureate, University of California, Berkeley faculty, University of California, Berkeley alumni, Rolf Schock Prize laureate, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Erdős number 2
Dana Stewart Scott (born 1932) is the emeritus "Hillman University Professor of Computer Science, Philosophy, and Mathematical Logic" at Carnegie...
John Tukey

John Tukey

male, deceased (2000)
American, Princeton University, Brown University alumni, World War II, Statistician, mathematics…Erdős number 2
John Wilder Tukey (June 16, 1915 - July 26, 2000) was a statistician born in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Tukey obtained a B.A. in 1936 and M.Sc. in...