Home›Formal Sciences›All Formal SciencesBrowse ByAll Formal SciencesReference and ClassificationVerifiedScientists whose primary working field is a formal science: mathematics, computer science, statistics, logic or a related discipline built on abstract systems rather than direct empirical observation of the physical world. Includes mathematician-astronomers and mathematician-physicists whose most historically significant legacy is in the formal rather than the physical or life sciences.FactsAll Formal SciencesSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonBranch NatureWell-attestedFormal Science 1All Formal SciencesFilter Results60 entriesDisciplineAllAstronomy (8)Chemistry (1)Cognitive Science (1)Computer Science (3)Linguistics (1)Logic (6)Mathematics (29)Medicine (1)Philosophy of Science (11)Physics (3)Statistics (11)EraAll429 (1)505 (1)598 (1)826 (1)1048 (1)1114 (1)1340 (1)1561 (1)1623 (1)1702 (1)1704 (1)1813 (1)1848 (1)1857 (1)1861 (1)1864 (1)1871 (1)1872 (1)1882 (1)1891 (4)1894 (1)1897 (1)1901 (2)1902 (3)1905 (1)1906 (1)1908 (1)1909 (1)1910 (1)1914 (1)1915 (2)1918 (1)1919 (1)1920 (1)1922 (2)1924 (3)1929 (1)1930 (1)1936 (1)1938 (1)1941 (1)1948 (1)1952 (1)1955 (1)1959 (2)1964 (2)NationalityAllAustria (3)Canada (2)China (2)Croatia (1)France (2)Germany (6)Hungary (3)India (6)India (2)Iran (1)Israel (1)Liu Song dynasty (1)Netherlands (1)Poland (2)Southern Qi (1)United Kingdom (14)United States (22)FieldAllAstronomy (8)Chemistry (1)Computer Science (8)Economics (2)Engineering (5)Linguistics (2)Mathematics (34)Philosophy of Science (6)Physics (7)Psychology (1)Sociology (2)Statistics (12)InstitutionAllAmerican Statistical Association (5)Arizona State University (1)Bell Labs (1)Breakthrough Prize (1)Collège de France (1)Columbia University (2)ETH Zurich (1)Harvard University (2)Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1)Heidelberg University (1)Imperial College London (1)Institute for Advanced Study (3)King's College London (1)London School of Economics (3)Massachusetts Institute of Technology (3)NASA (1)National Academy of Sciences (6)Presidency University, Kolkata (1)Princeton University (4)Rockefeller University (1)Royal Astronomical Society (1)Royal Society (4)Stanford University (1)Trinity College, Cambridge (1)Turing Award (1)University College London (1)University of Bordeaux (1)University of Calcutta (1)University of California, Berkeley (1)University of California, Los Angeles (1)University of Cambridge (1)University of Chicago (2)University of Jena (1)University of Manchester (1)University of Pittsburgh (2)University of Zurich (1)Wolf Prize (1)Yale University (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 50Abraham FraenkelFormal SciencesAbraham WaldFormal SciencesAlfred TarskiFormal SciencesAnil Kumar BhattacharyyaFormal SciencesAshutosh MukherjeeFormal SciencesBertrand RussellFormal SciencesBhaskara IIFormal SciencesBlaise PascalFormal SciencesBradley EfronFormal SciencesBrahmaguptaFormal SciencesCarl HempelFormal SciencesDavid CoxFormal SciencesEdna PaisanoFormal SciencesEmil PostFormal SciencesErnest NagelFormal SciencesErnst ZermeloFormal SciencesFrancis BaconFormal SciencesFrank YatesFormal SciencesGeorge E. P. BoxFormal SciencesGeorge MillerFormal SciencesGerhard GentzenFormal SciencesGerrit van der MeyFormal SciencesGilles BrassardFormal SciencesGladys WestFormal SciencesGottlob FregeFormal SciencesHans ReichenbachFormal SciencesHua LuogengFormal SciencesIan HackingFormal SciencesIbn al-YasaminFormal SciencesImre LakatosFormal SciencesJames LighthillFormal SciencesJerzy NeymanFormal SciencesJohn TukeyFormal SciencesKarl PearsonFormal SciencesKarl PopperFormal SciencesKatherine JohnsonFormal SciencesLarry LaudanFormal SciencesMadhava of SangamagramaFormal SciencesMichael PolanyiFormal SciencesOmar KhayyamFormal SciencesOtto NeurathFormal SciencesPaul FeyerabendFormal SciencesPaul TsengFormal SciencesPierre DuhemFormal SciencesRadhanath SikdarFormal SciencesRanjan MallikFormal SciencesRudolf CarnapFormal SciencesShu-Park ChanFormal SciencesStephen Shing-Toung YauFormal SciencesStephen WolframFormal Sciences12Next →Sources1. Wikipedia: Branches of sciencetier 2WikipediaBranches of science, lead section, three-group divisionQuote, Branches of science, lead section, three-group divisionThe branches of science, also referred to as sciences, scientific fields or scientific disciplines, are commonly divided into three major groups: Formal sciences...Natural sciences...Social sciences...View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.