People

People worth knowing

Developers

• Joe Armstrong
• John Carmack
• Jeffrey Dean – Google AI

Mathemeticians

• Newton: Newton, the Man (1946) (opens new window)
• John von Neumann: The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann (opens new window)
• John Conway" https://hn.premii.com/#/comments/22862053
• Nicolas Bourbaki: Nicolas Bourbaki: The greatest mathematician who never was (opens new window)
• Ramanujan: Ramanujan surprises again (opens new window)

Polyglot

• Ben Franklin
• Herbert Hoover: Book review (opens new window)