Applied Mathematics

🇬🇧Stephen Hawking

Science

atheism

1942–2018

"On seeing the Enterprise's warp engine while visiting the set of Star Trek: The Next Generation (where he would briefly play himself in the 1993 episode Descent, Part I), Hawking smiled and said: I'm working on that."

🇺🇸Howard H. Aiken

Science

1900–1973

"Originally one thought that if there were a half dozen large computers in this country, hidden away in research laboratories, this would take care of all requirements we had throughout the country."

🇿🇦George F. R. Ellis

Mathematics

b. 1939

"On the limits of quantum theory: Contextuality and the quantum–classical cut", Annals of Physics 327 1890–1932"

🇩🇪Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

Mathematics

1804–1851

"Any progress in the theory of partial differential equations must also bring about a progress in Mechanics."

🇦🇹Richard von Mises

Mathematics

1883–1953

"The theory of probability can never lead to a definite statement concerning a single event."

"Yes, but when I discovered it, it stayed discovered."