On: Majority of mathematicians hail from 24 scientific ‘families’

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I did one too of people I'm interested in

http://i.imgur.com/JuHbnk9.png ( http://imgur.com/a/mhFn3 )

Minsky, Abelson, McCarthy, Sussman, Steele, Dijkstra, Papert, Winograd, Erdos, Cantor, Wirth, Aho, Ritchie, Kleene, Turing etc.

Most are descended from Gauss and Euler, some from both.