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. Albert Einstein
7. Neil deGrasse Tyson
8. Niels Bohr
9. Galileo Galilei
10. Michael Faraday

• Other notables: Stephen Hawking, Edwin Hubble, Leonard Susskind, Christiaan Huygens

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