Tom Lehrer

Tom Lehrer

male, 81 years old
Thomas Andrew (Tom) Lehrer (born April 9, 1928) is an American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, and mathematician. He used to lecture on...
Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Pynchon

male, 72 years old
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. (born May 8, 1937) is an American writer based in New York City. He is noted for his dense and complex works of...
John Barnes

John Barnes

male
John Gilbert Presslie Barnes is a British computer scientist best known for his role in developing and publicising the Ada programming language....
Avicenna

Avicenna

male, deceased (1037)
Ibn Sina, also known as Avicenna) was a Persian ("Tājīk") Muslim universal genius who made signficant contributions to medicine, astronomy, al...
Marcus du Sautoy

Marcus du Sautoy

male, 44 years old
Marcus du Sautoy (born 1965) is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. Formerly of All Souls College, he is now a fellow of Wadham...
Ernst Mach

Ernst Mach

male, deceased (1916)
Ernst Mach (February 18, 1838 - February 19, 1916) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher and is the namesake for the "Mach number" (also known...
John Derbyshire

John Derbyshire

male, 64 years old
John Derbyshire (born June 3, 1945) is a British-born author who lives in the United States and became a naturalized citizen in 2002. He is a...
Michael Atiyah

Michael Atiyah

male, 80 years old
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, OM, FRS (b. April 22, 1929) is a British-Lebanese mathematician, widely considered one of the greatest geometers of the...
Vernor Vinge

Vernor Vinge

male, 65 years old
Vernor Steffen Vinge (born October 2, 1944 in Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA) is a retired San Diego State University Professor of Mathematics, computer...
Al-Kindi

Al-Kindi

male, deceased (873)
"' (c. 801-873 CE), also known by the Latinized version of his name Alkindus"' to the West, was a Muslim Arab scientist, philosopher,...