Mathematics
Mathematics is the discipline every other one borrows from. Geometry, calculus, number theory and topology were built here, and they now sit inside cryptography, structural engineering, epidemiology and machine learning.
32 indexed lives · 1 Nobel laureates · 15 countries
Where to start
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
1910 – 1995Worked out at nineteen why some stars must collapse into black holes.
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Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
780 – 850Gave the world algebra and, through his own name, the algorithm.
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Galileo Galilei
1564 – 1642Pointed a telescope upward and broke the authority of the ancients.
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Nobel recognition in Mathematics
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Nobel Prize in Physics, 1983