Mathematics & Computing

Pure and applied mathematics, statistics, logic and the origins of computing.

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Curated highlights

Laureates and fully researched profiles first, in order of birth.

Worked out at nineteen why some stars must collapse into black holes.

Gave the world algebra and, through his own name, the algorithm.

Pointed a telescope upward and broke the authority of the ancients.

Showed that one law governs the apple and the Moon alike.

Defined what a computer is, then was destroyed by the country he saved.

Wrote the web and gave it away for nothing.

Mathematicians whose proofs and notations became the substrate of science and finance.

Statisticians who invented inference, the controlled trial and the modern idea of evidence.

Pioneers of algorithms, programming languages, networks and machine intelligence.