4 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American psychologist — UCLA Anderson School of Management — author of Your Future Self — who studies the psychology of future self-continuity and its implications for long-term decision-making.
American scientist and author — UCLA — author of Guns, Germs, and Steel (Pulitzer Prize 1998) and Collapse — whose synthesis of evolutionary biology, geography, and history explains why Eurasian civilizations came to dominate — the most influential practitioner of big history.
Australian-American mathematician at UCLA — Fields Medal (2006) — who has made fundamental contributions to harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatorics, and number theory — widely considered the greatest living mathematician.
American political scientist — author of Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind — whose quantitative research at UCLA produced the most rigorous academic measurement of media political bias.