- Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian polymath: scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, and writer. The illegitimate son of a notary, Messer Piero, and a peasant girl, Caterina, Leonardo had no surname in the modern sense, "da Vinci" simply meaning "of Vinci": his full birth name was "Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci", meaning "Leonardo, … - Evgenij Beresin
- Michael Mitiaguin
- Anatoly Vershinin
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- Claude Shannon
Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 - February 24, 2001), an American electrical engineer and mathematician, has been called "the father of information theory", and was the founder of practical digital circuit design theory. - Tom Lehrer
Thomas Andrew (Tom) Lehrer (born April 9, 1928) is an American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, and mathematician. He used to lecture on mathematics and musical theater. - Archimedes
Archimedes of Syracuse was an ancient Greek mathematician, physicist and engineer. Although little is known about his life, he is regarded as one of the most important scientists in classical antiquity. In addition to making important discoveries in the field of mathematics and geometry, he is credited with producing machines that were well ahead of their time. - Ibn Al-Haytham
"' (Arabic: أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم, Latinized: Alhacen or (deprecated) Alhazen) (965 – 1039), was an Iraqi Muslim polymath who made significant contributions to the principles of optics, as well as anatomy, astronomy, engineering, mathematics, medicine, ophthalmology, philosophy, physics, psychology, visual perception, and science in general with his pioneering development of the scientific method. - Grace Hopper
Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper was an American computer scientist and United States Navy officer. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I calculator, and she developed the first compiler for a computer programming language. Because of the breadth of her accomplishments and her naval rank, she is sometimes referred to as "Amazing Grace". - Simon Stevin
Simon Stevin (1548/49 - 1620) was a Flemish mathematician and engineer. He was active in a great many areas of science and engineering, both theoretical and practical. He also translated various mathematical terms into Dutch, making it the only European language in which the word for mathematics ('wiskunde') was not derived from Greek (via Latin). - Oliver Heaviside
Oliver Heaviside (May 18, 1850 - February 3, 1925) was a self-taught English electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who adapted complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits, developed techniques for applying Laplace transforms to the solution of differential equations, reformulated Maxwell's field equations in terms of electric and magnetic forces and energy flux, and independently co-formulated vector analysis. - Alfred Korzybski
Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski was born on July 3, 1879 in Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire and died on March 1, 1950, in Lakeville, Connecticut, USA. He is probably best-remembered for developing the theory of general semantics. - Al-Karaji
Al-Karaji was an engineer and mathematician of the highest calibre. His enduring contributions to the field of mathematics and engineering are still recognized today in the form of the table of binomial coefficients, its formation law: :<math> {n choose mn-1 choose m-1} + {n-1 choose m} </math> and the expansion: :<math>(a+b)^n=sum_{k=0}^n{n choose k}a^kb^{n-k}<;/math> for integer n. Al-Karaji wrote about the work of earlier mathematicians, … - John Backus
John Warner Backus was an American computer scientist. He led the team that invented the first widely used high-level programming language (FORTRAN) and was the inventor of the Backus-Naur form (BNF), the almost universally used notation to define formal language syntax. He also did research in function-level programming and helped to popularize it. The IEEE awarded Backus the W.W. McDowell Award in 1967 for the development of FORTRAN. - Josiah Willard Gibbs
Josiah Willard Gibbs (February 11, 1839 - April 28, 1903) was a preeminent American mathematical-engineer, theoretical physicist, and chemist noted for his famed 1876 publication of "On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances", a graphical analysis of multi-phase chemical systems, which laid the basis for a large part of modern-day science. Being one of the greatest American scientists of the nineteenth century, … - Fred Brooks
Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. (born April 19, 1931) is a software engineer and computer scientist, best-known for managing the development of OS/360, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book "The Mythical Man-Month". "It is a very humbling experience to make a multi-million-dollar mistake, but it is also very memorable." Brooks received a Turing Award in 1999 and many other awards. Born in Durham, North Carolina, he attended Duke University, … - Boris Berezovsky
Boris Abramovich Berezovsky a.k.a. Platon Elenin is a Russian-born billionaire. He emigrated to the UK in 2001, where he was granted political asylum. - Zhang Heng
Zhang Heng (78 - 139 AD) was an astronomer, mathematician, inventor, geographer, artist, poet, statesman, and literary scholar of the Eastern Han Dynasty in ancient China. He had extensive knowledge of mechanics and gears, applying this knowledge to several of his known inventions. According to historian Joseph Needham, Zhang Heng was noted in his day for being able to "make three wheels rotate as if they were one" ("neng ling san lun du zhuan ye")". - Ibn Sahl
Ibn Sahl (Abu Sa`d al-`Ala' ibn Sahl) (c. 940-1000) was an Arabian mathematician and optics engineer associated with the court of Baghdad. About 984 he wrote a treatise "On Burning Mirrors and Lenses" in which he set out his understanding of how curved mirrors and lenses bend and focus light. Ibn Sahl is credited with first discovering the law of refraction, usually called Snell's law. - Shen Kuo
Shen Kuo or Shen Kua (1031–1095 AD) was a polymath Chinese scientist and statesman of the Song Dynasty (960–1279 AD). Excelling in many fields of study and statecraft, he was a mathematician, astronomer, meteorologist, geologist, zoologist, botanist, pharmacologist, agronomist, ethnographer, encyclopedist, poet, general, diplomat, hydraulic engineer, inventor, academy chancellor, finance minister, and governmental state inspector. - Vincenzo Viviani
Italian mathematician , leading geometer of his time, who founded the Accademia del Cimento. As one of the first important scientific societies, this organization came before England's Royal Society. In 1639, at age 17, he became the student, secretary and assistant of Galileo (now blind) in Arcetri, until Galileo died in 1642. During his long career, Viviani published a number of books on mathematical and scientific subjects. - Leslie Lamport
Dr. Leslie Lamport (born 1941) is an American computer scientist. A graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, he received a B.S. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1960, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from Brandeis University, respectively in 1963 and 1972. His dissertation was about singularities in analytic partial differential equations. - Jean-Charles de Borda
Jean-Charles Chevalier de Borda, was a French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor. Born in the city of Dax, in 1756 Borda wrote "Mémoire sur le mouvement des projectiles", a product of his work as a military engineer. For that, he was elected to the French Academy of Sciences in 1764. Borda was a mariner and a scientist, spending time in the Caribbean testing out advances in chronometers. - Su Song
Su Song (style Zirong was a renowned Chinese statesman, astronomer, cartographer, horologist, pharmacologist, mineralogist, zoologist, botanist, mechanical and architectural engineer, and ambassador of the Song Dynasty (960 - 1279 AD). Su Song was the engineer of a water-driven astronomical clock tower in medieval Kaifeng, which employed the use of an early escapement mechanism; the verge escapement was not known in Europe until 1275 AD. - Jean-Victor Poncelet
Jean-Victor Poncelet (July 1, 1788 - December 22, 1867) was a mathematician and engineer who did much to revive projective geometry. - G. Spencer-Brown
George Spencer-Brown (born April 2, 1923, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England) is a polymath best known as the author of "Laws of Form". He describes himself as a "mathematician, consulting engineer, psychologist, educational consultant and practitioner, consulting psychotherapist, author, and poet.". Spencer-Brown obtained an M.B. in 1940 from London Hospital Medical College (now part of Queen Mary, University of London). - Kurt Heegner
Kurt Heegner was a German high school teacher and radio engineer from Berlin now famous for his mathematical discoveries. In 1952 Heegner published what he claimed was the solution of a classic problem proposed by the great mathematician Gauss, the class number 1 problem, a significant and longstanding problem in number theory. Heegner's work was not accepted for years, due mainly to mistakes in the paper, though Harold Stark later showed these could be fixed. - Lazare Carnot
Comte Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot (May 13, 1753-August 2, 1823), the "Organizer of Victory" in the French Revolutionary Wars was a French politician, engineer, and mathematician. - William Thomson 1st Baron Kelvin
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, OM, GCVO, PC, PRS, FRSE, (26 June 1824 - 17 December 1907) was a mathematical physicist, engineer, and outstanding leader in the physical sciences of the 19th century. He did important work in the mathematical analysis of electricity and thermodynamics, and did much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form. He is widely known for developing the Kelvin scale of absolute temperature measurement. - Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Charles Proteus Steinmetz (April 9, 1865-October 26, 1923) was an American Mathematician and Electrical Engineer. He fostered the development of alternating current that made possible the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States, formulating mathematical theories for engineers. He made ground-breaking discoveries in the understanding of hysteresis that enabled engineers to better design electric motors for use in industry. - Arne Beurling
Arne Carl-August Beurling (February 3, 1905 - November 20, 1986) was a mathematician and professor of mathematics at Uppsala University (1937-1954) and later at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, USA. Arne Beurling worked extensively in harmonic analysis, complex analysis and potential theory. - Guo Shoujing
Guo Shoujing (1231 - 1316) was a Chinese astronomer, engineer, and mathematician. - Agner Krarup Erlang
Agner Krarup Erlang (January 1, 1878-February 3, 1929) was a Danish mathematician, statistician and engineer, who invented the fields of traffic engineering and queueing theory. - Edward Earl
Edward Arthur Earl (born 1964 in Brooklyn) is an American computer scientist and an author of WinProm program. B.S. in Chemistry and mathematics, Furman University, 1986 Ph.D. in Computational chemistry, University of Utah, 1992. He is a Principal Engineer in CACI Technologies, San Diego, California. - Hal Abelson
Harold (Hal) Abelson is Class of 1922 Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and a Fellow of the IEEE. He holds an A.B. degree from Princeton University and a Ph.D. degree in mathematics from MIT. He joined the MIT faculty in 1973. In 1992, Abelson was designated as one of MIT's six inaugural MacVicar Faculty Fellows, in recognition of his significant and sustained contributions to teaching and undergraduate education. - Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis or Gustave Coriolis, mathematician, mechanical engineer and scientist born in Paris, France. He is best known for his work on the Coriolis Effect. Coriolis was the first to coin the term "work" for the product of force and distance. In 1816 Coriolis became a tutor at the École Polytechnique. Here he carried out experiments on friction and hydraulics. - Dusa McDuff
Dusa McDuff (born Margaret Dusa Waddington in London on 18 October 1945) is an English mathematician whose first work was in the field of von Neumann algebras (notably, she proved the existence of infinitely many type <math>II_1</math> factors). She has more recently made fundamental and wide-ranging contributions to symplectic geometry, especially in connection with Gromov's pseudoholomorphic curves. She is a professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. - Benjamin Robins
Benjamin Robins (1707-July 29, 1751) was an English scientist, mathematician, and engineer. Benjamin Robins was born in Bath. His parents were Quakers in poor circumstances; as a result, he received very little formal education. Having come to London by the advice of Dr. Henry Pemberton (1694-1771), who had recognized Robins' talents, he for a time maintained himself by teaching mathematics, but soon devoted himself to engineering and the study of fortification. - Esteban Terradas I Illa
Esteban Terradas i Illa (born Barcelona, 15 September 1883; died Madrid, 9 May 1950) was a Spanish mathematician, scientist and engineer. He researched and taught widely in the fields of mathematics and the physical sciences, working not only in his native Catalonia, but also in the rest of Spain and in South America. He was also active as a consultant in the Spanish telephone and railway industries. He held two doctorates (in mathematics and physics) on 1904, …
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