"Well-known" in a particular field doesn't necessarily mean "household name"... do you know who Tim Gowers is, for example? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_

"Well-known" in a particular field doesn't necessarily mean "household name"... do you know who Tim Gowers is, for example? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Aaronson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Aaronson A lot of people might know him from http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html, which is the article about that topic. edit: Okay, rereading this article I recovered an insight that leads to a truer reason Aaronson's worth linking to. It is not that he's a famous professor (he is) so much that he is, in general, a great expositor. Read that big-number article and tell me he's not.