Robert Tarjan

Robert Tarjan

male, 61 years old
Fibonacci heap, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, splay tree, pomona, Doctor of Philosophy, ACM Fellow…Erdős number 2
Robert Endre Tarjan (born April 30, 1948 in Pomona, California) is a renowned American computer scientist. He is the discoverer of several...
Don Coppersmith

Don Coppersmith

male
Harvard University, Mars, Institute for Defense Analyses, Erdős number 2, Putnam Fellows, block cipher
Don Coppersmith is a cryptographer and mathematician. He was involved in the design of the Data Encryption Standard block cipher at IBM,...
Freeman Dyson

Freeman Dyson

male, 86 years old
physicist, mathematician, futurism, quantum mechanics, International Cooperation, Space advocacy…Erdős number 2
Freeman John Dyson FRS (born December 15, 1923) is an English-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum...
Emil Artin

Emil Artin

male, deceased (1962)
emigrant, Princeton University, Emma Laura-Artin, Liberec, Reichenberg, Erdős number 2
Emil Artin was an Austrian mathematician. His father, also Emil Artin, was an art-dealer, and his mother was the opera singer Emma Laura-Artin. He...
Gian-Carlo Rota

Gian-Carlo Rota

male, deceased (1999)
from the Province of Pavia, Yale University, Functional Analysis, Colegio Americano de Quito, combinatorist, Italian-American…Erdős number 2
Gian-Carlo Rota (April 27, 1932 - April 18, 1999, known as Juan Carlos Rota to Spanish-speakers) was an Italian-born American mathematician and...
Marshall Hall

Marshall Hall

male, deceased (1990)
Erdős number 2, Algebraist, Emory University, World War II, mathematician, cambridge university
Marshall Hall, Jr. (17 September 1910, St Louis, Missouri - 4 July 1990, London) was an American mathematician who made contributions to group...

Tom Duff

male, 57 years old
the fifth Earl of Selkirk, Computer graphics professional, Plan 9, Leaside, Thomas Douglas Selkirk Duff, Computer graphics professionals…Erdős number 2
Thomas Douglas Selkirk Duff (b. December 8, 1952, named for his putative ancestor, the fifth Earl of Selkirk) is a computer programmer. He was born...

Jacques Stern

male, 60 years old
Erdős number 2, CS-Cipher, Naccache-Stern cryptosystem, Naccache-Stern knapsack cryptosystem, Pointcheval-Stern signature algorithm, block cipher
Jacques Stern is a cryptographer, currently a professor at the École Normale Supérieure, where he is Director of the Computer Science Laboratory. He...
Vint Cerf

Vint Cerf

male
TCP/IP, Google employee, Internet pioneer, founding fathers of the Internet, Internet history, internet…Erdős number 2
Vinton Gray Cerf (born June 23, 1943) (last name pronounced just like the English word "surf") is an American computer scientist who is commonly...
Eugenio Calabi

Eugenio Calabi

male (Durham, North Carolina, United States)
University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Minnesota, mathematician, Princeton University alumni…Erdős number 2
Eugenio Calabi (born 1923) is an Italian-American mathematician and professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in...