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Medieval Indian mathematician and astronomer. In works such as Lilavati he anticipated key ideas of algebra and calculus.

English writer and scholar. Father of Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, he wrote anecdotal collections such as Curiosities of Literature.

British economist. He founded modern macroeconomics with his theory of effective demand and profoundly shaped twentieth-century economic policy.

English poet and writer. His aphoristic verse collection Proverbial Philosophy was hugely popular in the Victorian era.

Austrian psychiatrist and psychologist. Founder of logotherapy, known for Man's Search for Meaning.

English mathematician and philosopher who wrote Principia Mathematica with Bertrand Russell. In later life he developed his own metaphysics, known as process philosophy, in the United States.

American educator and writer on children's literacy. He is best known for The Read-Aloud Handbook, which urges parents to read aloud to their children every day.

William Hazlitt

1778 – 1830 · United Kingdom

British essayist, literary critic, and thinker. He left behind masterpieces of English essay literature.

Commanding general of the Confederate army in the American Civil War. After the war he served as a college president, working for reconciliation and education.

Aisopos

Greece

Ancient Greek fabulist. Famous for Aesop's Fables, he established the tradition of Western fable literature through moralistic stories that personify animals.