Favorites

I like to describe myself as the kind of person who has a list of his favorite physicists and favorite mathematicians. The thought being that just knowing I have such a list tells you everything you really need to know about me.

Favorite Physicists

1. Harold "Hal" Stahl
2. Carl Sagan
3. Richard Feynman
4. Marie Curie
5. Nikola Tesla
6. Robert Goddard
7. Albert Einstein
8. Niels Bohr
9. Neil deGrasse Tyson
10. Edwin Hubble

• Other notables: Christiaan Huygens, Michael Faraday, Stephen Hawking, Leonard Susskind

Favorite Mathematicians

1. Ada Lovelace
2. Alan Turing
3. Tim Berners-Lee
4. Isaac Newton
5. Emmy Noether
6. Johannes Kepler
7. René Descartes
8. George Boole
9. Carl Friedrich Gauss
10. Grace Hopper

• Other notables: Blaise Pascal, Daphne Koller, Grady Booch, Evelyn Berezin, Pascal Van Hentenryck