Seven people I have interviewed:
- Rick Richter, CIO of Food for the Hungry
- Eric Floehr, owner of ForecastWatch
- Frederick Brooks, computer pioneer and author
- Robert Ghrist, applied topologist
- Cliff Pickover, mathematician and author
- Dan Bricklin, software developer and author
- Carl Franklin, musician and software developer
Two people who have interviewed me:
- Vincent Tan in his online magazine Singularity
- Samuel Hansen in his podcast Strongly Connected Components
Six interviews I have blogged about:
- Henry Petroski, engineer
- Arnold Kling, economist
- David Spiegelhalter, statistician
- Billy Hollis, software developer
- Eugenia Chang, mathematician
- Charles Bamforth, beer scholar
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Richard 06.25.11 at 06:41
Read your interview with a topologist – interestingly practical sort of guy. I’ve known a couple of (exactly two) topologists, and they WAY did not think like I do. First one I met, circa 1980, was the chairman of the math department at Atlanta Junior College (as an undergrad at GSU, I tutored chemistry and math at AJC and elsewhere to supplement my meager income from scholarships and student assistance-ships). This chap introduced me to the notion that doughnuts, coffee cups, and humans are all topologically equivalent (I leave the deformations to the interested student – hint: consider holes and dimples)…very different world view than mine as an algebraist.