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Short-story writer, essayist, poet, and translator. Known for his books Ficciones and El Aleph, which explore motifs such as dreams, labyrinths, chance, infinity, and mythology.
He was a member of the Communist Party and came from a family of Russian nobility.
Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. Best known for his popular 1980 novel "The Name of the Rose" and his 1988 novel "Foucault's Pendulum".
Theoretical physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, theory of quantum electrodynamics, and the physics of superfluidity. Nobel Prize recipient for his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics.
Essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist. Work concerns problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty.