RE: 50 mathematicians to know
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I don't know Dantzig.
Pearson I missed reading in that list. Yes, Kolmogorov.
These 2 guys may not make this list but they are important to the field of statistics I believe. Andrew Gelman & Bradley Efron (bootstrap method).
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Dude, Dantzig is that one guy who came late to the lecture in 1939 and solved two open statistical problems because he have thought that they are homework! And he also wrote that he is sorry for giving his homework later, but it was quite more difficult then the previous ones :)
Didn't You hear that story earlier?
I had 1 lecture about Bootstrap on Statistical Data Analysis course.
I heard about physicist Gell-Mann (Richard Feynman mentions him many times in his book), but not about mathematician Gelman :)