John Tukey
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American mathematician (1915-2000)
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Mathematician who, along with Richard Garwin, debated seismometer superiority and was later seen working on Discrete Fourier Transforms, leading to the FFT.
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Tim Ferriss
An American mathematician and statistician, described as the 'father of data visualization,' who worked at Bell Labs. He is quoted with the insight that 'it's far better to have an approximate answer to the right question... than an exact answer to the wrong question.'