Links to Historical Figures (Web URLs)

• Charles Babbage 1791-1871 (Father of computing)
• Francis Galton 1822-1911 (Victorian polymath, eugenicists, inventor of fingerprinting, half cousin of Charles Darwin )
• Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777-1855 (Greatest mathematician of all time)
• Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace 1815-1852 (Mother of computing)
• Alfred Lotka 1880-1949 (Demographer and mathematical ecologist)
• Thomas Malthus 1766-1834 (Early political economists: optional reading "An Essay on the Principle of Population")
• Benoit Mandelbrot 1924- (chaos and the Mandelbrot Set)
• Gregor Mendel 1822-1884 (founder of modern population genetics)
• John von Neumann 1903-1957 (modern computers are "von Neumann machines)
• Jule Henri Poincaré 1854-1912 (diferrential equations, anticipated chaos)
• Alan Mathison Turing 1912-1954 (the universal computing machine)
• Vito Volterra 1860-1940 (mathematical biology)