Richard Phillips Feynman was an American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in …

Feynman's Los Alamos ID badge

At the 1946 colloquium on the "Super" at the Los Alamos Laboratory. Feynman is in the second row, fourth from left, next to Oppenheimer

Andrew M. Gleason [videos]

Andrew Mattei Gleason was an American mathematician who as a young World War II naval officer broke German and Japanese military codes, then over the succeeding sixty years made fundamental contributions to widely varied areas of mathematics, including the solution of Hilbert's fifth …

With family cat Fred about 1966

With his brother, linguist Henry Allan Gleason Jr., in Toronto, 1969

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Elwyn Berlekamp [videos]

Elwyn Ralph Berlekamp is an American mathematician. He is a professor emeritus of mathematics and EECS at the University of California, Berkeley. Berlekamp is known for his work in, computer science, coding theory and combinatorial game theory.Berlekamp is the inventor of …

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Andreas Blass [videos]

Andreas Raphael Blass is a mathematician, currently a professor at the University of Michigan. He specializes in mathematical logic, particularly set theory, and theoretical computer science. — Blass graduated from the University of Detroit, where he was a Putnam …

Prof. Andreas Blass giving a talk during the conference "Boise Extravaganza in Set Theory BEST 17", Boise, Idaho, March 2008

Eugenio Calabi [videos]

Eugenio Calabi is an Italian-born American mathematician and professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in differential geometry, partial differential equations and their applications. — Calabi was a Putnam Fellow as an undergraduate at the …

Eugenio Calabi

Arthur P. Dempster [videos]

Arthur Pentland Dempster is a Professor Emeritus in the Harvard University Department of Statistics. He was one of four faculty when the department was founded in 1957. — Biography — Dempster received his B.A. in mathematics and physics and M.A. in mathematics, both from …

Prof Dempster at the workshop on Belief Function Theory (Brest 1 April 2010).

Ioana Dumitriu [videos]

Ioana Dumitriu is a Romanian-American mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at the University of Washington. Her research interests include the theory of random matrices, numerical analysis, scientific computing, and game theory. — Life — Dumitriu is the …

Dumitriu in 2003

Noam Elkies [videos]

Noam David Elkies is an American mathematician and professor of mathematics at Harvard University. At the age of 26, he became the youngest professor to receive tenure at Harvard. He is also a chess master and an accomplished chess composer. — Early life — Elkies attended …

Noam Elkies in 2007

Jon Folkman [videos]

Jon Hal Folkman was an American mathematician, a student of John Milnor, and a researcher at the RAND Corporation. — Schooling — Folkman was a Putnam Fellow in 1960. He received his Ph.D. in 1964 from Princeton University, under the supervision of Milnor …

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Donald A. S. Fraser [videos]

Donald Alexander Stuart Fraser is a Canadian statistician, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto. In 2012 he was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada for his influence in the advancement of the statistical sciences in Canada. In 1961 he was elected as …

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Melvin Hochster [videos]

Melvin Hochster is an eminent American mathematician, regarded as one of the leading commutative algebraists active today. He is currently the Jack E. McLaughlin Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan. — Hochster attended Stuyvesant High …

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Roger Evans Howe [videos]

Roger Evans Howe is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Yale University, and Curtis D. Robert Endowed Chair in Mathematics Education at Texas A&M University. He is well known for his contributions to representation theory, and in particular for the notion …

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Irving Kaplansky [videos]

Irving Kaplansky was a mathematician, college professor, author, and musician. — Biography — Kaplansky or "Kap" as his friends and colleagues called him was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to Polish-Jewish immigrants; his father worked as a tailor, and his …

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Michael J. Larsen [videos]

Michael Jeffrey Larsen is an American mathematician, a distinguished professor of mathematics at Indiana University Bloomington. — Academic biography — In high school, Larsen tied with four other competitors for the top score in the 1977 International Mathematical Olympiad in Belgrade, winning a …

Michael J. Larsen

John Milnor [videos]

John Willard Milnor is an American mathematician known for his work in differential topology, K-theory and dynamical systems. Milnor is a distinguished professor at Stony Brook University and one of the four mathematicians to have won the Fields Medal, the Wolf Prize, and …

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Peter Montgomery (mathematician) [videos]

Peter Lawrence Montgomery is an American mathematician who has published widely in the more mathematical end of the field of cryptography. He is currently a researcher in the cryptography group at Microsoft Research. — Montgomery is particularly known for his contributions to …

Peter Montgomery in July 2009 at Microsoft Research.

David Mumford [videos]

David Bryant Mumford is an American mathematician known for distinguished work in algebraic geometry, and then for research into vision and pattern theory. He won the Fields Medal and was a MacArthur Fellow. In 2010 he was awarded the National Medal of Science. He is currently a …

David Mumford in 2010

William Nierenberg [videos]

William Aaron Nierenberg was an American physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and was director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1965 through 1986. He was a co-founder of the George C. Marshall Institute in 1984. — Background …

William A. Nierenberg

Aaron Pixton [videos]

Aaron C. Pixton is an American mathematician at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He works in enumerative geometry, and is also known for his chess playing. — Early life and education — Pixton was born in Binghamton, New York; his father, Dennis Pixton, is a …

Aaron Pixton at the Workshop Moduli Spaces in Algebraic Geometry, Oberwolfach 2013

Bjorn Poonen [videos]

Bjorn Mikhail Poonen is a mathematician, four-time Putnam Competition winner and currently the Claude Shannon Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. — His research is primarily in arithmetic geometry, but he has occasionally published in other subjects such as …

Bjorn Poonen at Oberwolfach in 2011

Vern Poythress [videos]

Vern Sheridan Poythress is an American Calvinist philosopher, theologian, and New Testament scholar. — Biography — Poythress lived on his family farm in Madera, California until he was five years old and later moved with his family to Fresno, California. — He earned a B.S. in …

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Miller Puckette [videos]

Miller Smith Puckette is the associate director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts as well as a professor of music at the University of California, San Diego, where he has been since 1994. — Puckette is known for authoring Max, a graphical development environment for …

Miller Puckette at the Linux Audio Conference 2014 at ZKM in Karlsruhe

Arthur Rubin [videos]

Arthur Leonard Rubin is an American mathematician and aerospace engineer. He was named a Putnam Fellow on four consecutive occasions from 1970 to 1973. — Life and career — Rubin's mother was Jean E. Rubin, a professor of mathematics at Purdue University, and his father was Herman …

Rubin at the Aquarium of the Pacific in August 2006

Karl Rubin [videos]

Karl Cooper Rubin is an American mathematician at University of California, Irvine as Thorp Professor of Mathematics. His research interest is in elliptic curves. He was the first mathematician to show that some elliptic curves over the rationals have finite …

Karl Rubin in 2009.

Richard Schroeppel [videos]

Richard C. Schroeppel is an American mathematician born in Illinois. His research has included magic squares, elliptic curves, and cryptography. In 1964, Schroeppel won first place in the United States among over 225,000 high school students in the Annual High School Mathematics …

Richard Schroeppel in 2004

Barry Simon [videos]

Barry Martin Simon is an American mathematical physicist and the IBM Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Caltech, known for his prolific contributions in spectral theory, functional analysis, and nonrelativistic quantum mechanics (particularly Schrödinger …

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Ravi Vakil [videos]

Ravi D. Vakil is a Canadian-American mathematician working in algebraic geometry. — Education and career — Vakil attended high school at Martingrove Collegiate Institute in Etobicoke, Ontario, where he won several mathematical contests and olympiads. After earning a BSc …

Ravi Vakil in 2008 (photo from MFO)

Paul Vojta [videos]

Paul Alan Vojta is an American mathematician, known for his work in number theory on diophantine geometry and diophantine approximation. — Contributions — In formulating a number of striking conjectures, he pointed out the possible existence of parallels between the …

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Melanie Wood [videos]

Melanie Matchett Wood is an American mathematician who became the first female American to make the U.S. International Mathematical Olympiad Team. She completed her Ph.D. in 2009 at Princeton University and is currently Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor …

Melanie Wood in 2007 Photo from Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (MFO)

Don Zagier [videos]

Don Bernard Zagier is an American mathematician whose main area of work is number theory. He is currently one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany. He was a professor at the Collège de France in Paris, France from 2006 to 2014. Since …

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Amazon River [videos]

The Amazon River in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and by some definitions it is the longest.The headwaters of the Apurímac River on Nevado Mismi had been considered for nearly a century as the Amazon's …

Amazon River near Indiana, Peru

Pwanchir Pitu, Achuar shaman

Amazon tributaries near Manaus

Native Mundurukú Painting by Hercules Florence

Whitney Houston [videos]

Whitney Elizabeth Houston was an American singer and actress. She was cited as the most awarded female artist of all time by Guinness World Records and remains one of the best-selling music artists of all time with 200 million records sold worldwide. She …

Houston performing at Welcome Home Heroes with Whitney Houston in 1991

New Hope Baptist Church

Houston performing "Saving All My Love for You" on the Welcome Home Heroes concert in 1991

Houston performing "My Love Is Your Love" with her daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown on Good Morning America, September 2, 2009

Hearst Castle [videos]

Hearst Castle, San Simeon, is a National Historic Landmark and California Historical Landmark located on the Central Coast of California in the United States. The joint concept of William Randolph Hearst, the publishing tycoon, and his architect Julia Morgan, it was built between 1919 and 1947 …

Casa Grande, inspired by the Church of Santa María la Mayor, Ronda, Spain, formed the centrepiece of Hearst's estate.

The Church of Santa María la Mayor, Ronda - Hearst's main inspiration

Hearst with Julia Morgan in 1926.

The single-story front elevation of Casa Del Mar

History of Italy [videos]

In addition to the various ancient peoples dispersed throughout modern-day Italy, the most famous of which being the Indo-European Italics who gave the peninsula its name, beginning from the classical era, Phoenicians and Carthaginians founded colonies in insular Italy and Genoa, Greeks established …

Mesolithic petroglyph in Valcamonica, Lombardy. The largest collection of prehistoric petroglyphs in the world (10th millennium BCE).

Pyramid of Monte d'Accoddi is an archaeological site in northern Sardinia, Italy, located in the territory of Sassari near Porto Torres. 4th millennium BCE.

History of Italy - Ötzi the oldest mummy in the world discovered in the southern Alps (region of Trentino-Alto Adige) with extremely sophisticated equipment to that time. 4th millennium BCE.

Ötzi the oldest mummy in the world discovered in the southern Alps (region of Trentino-Alto Adige) with extremely sophisticated equipment to that time. 4th millennium BCE.

Su Nuraxi nuraghe, Sardinia, Italy, 2nd millennium BCE.

Charles Barkley [videos]

Charles Wade Barkley is an American retired professional basketball player who is currently an analyst on Inside the NBA. Nicknamed Chuck, Sir Charles, and The Round Mound of Rebound. Barkley established himself as one of the National Basketball Association's most dominant …

Charles Barkley in 2008

Barkley with President Barack Obama at the White House

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