Greatest Mathematicians of All Time

[anthrax]

I'd go with Gauss

then Sir Isaac Newton
and Archimedes

In recent history, Poincaré

 

[jeepboi]

What about Srinivasa Ramanujan



http://www.worsleyschool.net/science/files/rama/page.html

 

[Liebnitz]

Wtf?

 

[calimuscle]

I'll throw my nod in the applied arena to Alan Turing.

Galois was also brilliant, but we will never know how much since his work was trashed (literally).

 

[Cucumber_Jones]

Lmfao.

 

[blut wump]

Wtf?

I think a mathematician should be in the habit of spelling his own name correctly to be eligible for any consideration of greatness.

No love for Tricky Dicky Feynman?

Galois smoked too much.

I'm voting for Euclid.

 

[redguru]

I think a mathematician should be in the habit of spelling his own name correctly to be eligible for any consideration of greatness.

No love for Tricky Dicky Feynman?

Galois smoked too much.

I'm voting for Euclid.

I'd tend to agree with Euclid. He began the idea of proofs of proofs and theorums setting advanced mathematics in motion.

 

[Subzeero]

Carl Friedrich Gauss

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss

 

[Anthony Roberts]

Perhaps not the greatest, but my favorite:

Bertrand Russell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_russell

 

[Subzeero]

Perhaps not the greatest, but my favorite:

Bertrand Russell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_russell

During the first World War, Russell engaged in pacifist activities, and, in 1916, he was dismissed from Trinity College following his conviction under the Defence of the Realm Act. A later conviction resulted in six months' imprisonment in Brixton prison


Oh wow man. Great biography. Tons of respect for this man.

 

[majutsu]

Gauss is the only one who belongs on this list. The rest of these people are physicists, philosophers, or one-trick ponys.

Von Newmann is the ony one who could give gauss a run for his money in terms of influence on the greatest number of fields.

Riemann third?

 

[Anthony Roberts]

During the first World War, Russell engaged in pacifist activities, and, in 1916, he was dismissed from Trinity College following his conviction under the Defence of the Realm Act. A later conviction resulted in six months' imprisonment in Brixton prison


Oh wow man. Great biography. Tons of respect for this man.

Check out the Bio for his Protege, Wittgenstein....even more impressive...

 

[calimuscle]

Gauss is the only one who belongs on this list. The rest of these people are physicists, philosophers, or one-trick ponys.

Von Newmann is the ony one who could give gauss a run for his money in terms of influence on the greatest number of fields.

Riemann third?

Math was invented to describe physics:

Calculus - How planets revolve around the Sun
Geometry - Navigation, Engineering, and War Fighting
Methods of Proof - Philosophy of Argument
Discrete Mathematics - Computer Science
Algebra - Utilitarian method to solve for an unknown
Game Theory - Conflict and Cooperation (i.e. Economics)

etc, etc.

Its hard to be a giant in anything during times before the discovery of electricity.

 

[artificialaspirations]

newton fan