humans

Was one of the first researchers who demonstrated the use of generalised back propagation algorithm for training multi-layer neural nets

Invented PCR (polymerase chain reaction)

Developed QuickSort algorithm

Pioneered cut, copy, paste action

Designed, built and flew the first controlled, powered, heavier than air airplane in 1903

Helped design Smalltalk language

Designed Turbo Pascal and Delphi languages and works as lead architect of C+ and core developer of TypeScript

Designed C++ language

Designed Javascript language

Designed Swift language

Helped design C language

Designed Python language

Designed Java language

Designed C language

Designed Perl language

Developed BCPL programming language

Designed several languages including Pascal

Designed PHP language

Helped design Go language

Primary developer of the OCaml system

Designed ruby language

Introduced a theory of reference that shows how to relate the objects in logic to objects in the real world

Used a lot of advanced methods (something like infinitesimal calculus) which he used to derive the formulas for computing the volume of cones and other solids of revolution, he also used similar methods to investigate the properties of conics

Built a famous calculating machine

Invented Normal Distribution

Invented Information Theory

Was interested in properties of integers

Known for the Sieve of Eratosthenes, which is a method of finding prime numbers

Mathematical treatment of “preferred outcomes” or utility was first finalised by him, gave the basis for modern proof-based mathematics

Worked out the details of propositional, or Boolean logic

First framed the idea of probability, describing it in terms of the possible outcomes of gambling events

Built a mechanical device intended to carry out operations on concepts rather than numbers

Extended Boole’s logic to include objects and relations, creating the first-order logic that is used today

Invented Wave Equation

Invented logarithms

Invented Fourier Transform

Invented The Square Root of Minus One, Euler’s Formula for Polyhedra

Advanced the theory and introduced new statistical methods

Invented the famous Pythagoras’s Theorem

Gave the first clear discussion of the distinction between mind and matter and of the problems that arise

Proposed a rule for updating probabilities in light of new evidence

Stage name: Tory Y Moi

Stage name: Emancipator

Stage name: Shlohmo

Stage name: Nujabes

Band: Bon Iver

Band: Tame Impala

Stage name: Lorn

Proposed that reasoning was like numerical computation, that “we add and subtract in our silent thoughts”

First person to transmit and receive radio waves

Invented Calculus and Law of Gravity

Invented Maxwell’s equations

Invented Schrodinger’s Equation

Known for his pioneering work in child development

Was the man who started Buddhism

Known by his pen name ‘George Orwell’