The scribes of Babylon
The household name
The Persian poet
The gambling scholar
The cunning fox
The frustrated doctor and the sickly genius
The luckless revolutionary
The mediocre engineer and the transcendent professor
The drunken vandal
The would-be soldier and the weakly bookworm
The clerk from the patent office
A quantum quintet
The five-dimensional man
The political journalist
A muddle of mathematicians
Seekers after truth and beauty.