Roger Antonsen combines science, mathematics and computer science with entertainment, philosophy and visualizations.

Cédric Villani tackles perplexing problems in mathematical physics, analysis and geometry with rigor, wit and a signature personal style.

Conrad Wolfram runs the worldwide arm of Wolfram Research, the mathematical lab behind the cutting-edge knowledge engine Wolfram Alpha.

Scott Rickard is passionate about mathematics, music -- and educating the next generation of scientists and mathematicians.

Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón links science with humor and stories.

Eugenia Cheng devotes her life to mathematics, the piano and helping people.

Radio host Adam Spencer fills Sydney's drive-time mornings with smart math and science talk.

Robert Lang merges mathematics with aesthetics to fold elegant modern origami. His scientific approach helps him make folds once thought impossible -- and has secured his place as one of the first great Western masters of the art.

In his work in applied mathematics, Steven Strogatz studies the way math and biology intersect.

In 2016, at age 13, Anushka Naiknaware was the youngest winner of the Google Science Fair, with her invention of a clever new bandage that tells caregivers when it needs to be changed.

Hannah Fry researches the trends in our civilization and ways we can forecast its future.

Alex Rosenthal takes everyday experiences and turns them into mind-bending puzzles.

Mohamad Jebara is the founder and CEO of Mathspace, an education technology product that provides students with guided feedback through the mathematics curriculum.

Julian Assange serves as spokesperson for WikiLeaks.

Olivia Arthur is a London-based photographer known for her work examining people and their personal and cultural identities.

Erez Lieberman Aiden pursues a broad range of research interests, spanning genomics, linguistics, mathematics ...

After astonishing success as a mathematician, code breaker and billionaire hedge fund manager, Jim Simons is mastering yet another field: philanthropy.

Miguel Goncalves is an investor who believes sustainable finance can be used to address major global problems.

BCG's Sylvain Duranton thinks that only human input can save us from a high-tech bureaucracy.

Marvin Minsky is one of the great pioneers of artificial intelligence -- and using computing metaphors to understand the human mind. His contributions to mathematics, robotics and computational linguistics are legendary and far-reaching.

Brian Greene is perhaps the best-known proponent of superstring theory, the idea that minuscule strands of energy vibrating in a higher dimensional space-time create every particle and force in the universe.

Alex Wissner-Gross applies science and engineering principles to big (and diverse) questions, like: "What is the equation for intelligence?" and "What's the best way to raise awareness about climate change?"

Craig Costello uses mathematics to secure the digital world, both against the threats that exist today and those that may exist in the future.

Max Little is a mathematician whose research includes a breakthrough technique to monitor – and potentially screen for – Parkinson's disease through simple voice recordings.

An early employee at Google, Matt Cutts works to modernize the US government as an administrator at U.S. Digital Service (USDS).

Brett Hennig co-founded and directs the Sortition Foundation, which campaigns to institute the use of stratified, random selection (also called sortition) in government.

Talithia Williams builds statistical models that study the spatial and temporal structure of data.

As Publisher of BuzzFeed, Dao Nguyen thinks about how media spreads online and the technology and data that publishers can use to understand why.

Anil Ananthaswamy is driven by a curiosity to understand the natural world and our place in it.

Jean-Baptiste Michel looks at how we can use large volumes of data to better understand our world.