What is the greatest mathematical discovery of all time ? (1 Viewer)

[Zen2613]

In your opinion, what is the upmost greatest mathematical discovery of all time and why?

 

[sida1049]

1+1=2

Just about everything else follows from that.

 

[Paradoxica]

1+1=2

Just about everything else follows from that.

Actually, we have to define what addition is and be able to avoid the self referential paradoxes that Russell encountered in trying to establish a perfect foundation for all of mathematics...

 

[BLIT2014]

Probably something which we consider very simple such as arabic numerals.

 

[InteGrand]

What about Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem?

 

[sida1049]

Actually, we have to define what addition is and be able to avoid the self referential paradoxes that Russell encountered in trying to establish a perfect foundation for all of mathematics...

Of course, though we had to originally base our mathematical systems on primitive economics, namely quantifying and trading, hence I would contend that 1+1=2 is probably the original gateway to mathematics by humans.

 

[Paradoxica]

What about Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem?

That was just a thing which made us realise how the world works against our idealistic desires. It's not that big of a discovery.

 

[RenegadeMx]

Pythagoras Thm, without it cant solve cos^2(x)+sin^2(x)=1, hence no trig etc

 

[Nailgun]

The concept of zero

 

[Paradoxica]

Real Analysis-> Complex Analysis -> Quantum Mechanics -> Age of Silicon -> Technologicall Revolution

 

[Silly Sausage]

Real Analysis-> Complex Analysis -> Quantum Mechanics -> Age of Silicon -> Technologicall Revolution

Lol. You're actually quoting HSC topics.
Also complex analysis doesn't really come off from real analysis.

 

[Paradoxica]

Lol. You're actually quoting HSC topics.
Also complex analysis doesn't really come off from real analysis.

I know. But without real analysis, there would be no existing structural foundations for complex analysis.

 

[eyeseeyou]

The discovery of differentiation and integration

 

[seremify007]

Pythagora's blew my mind.

 

[Speed6]

The discovery of differentiation and integration

Calculus.

 

[Drsoccerball]

Im surprised no one made any penis jokes LOL

 

[Paradoxica]

Im surprised no one made any penis jokes LOL

Well, that just tells us a lot about your mind.

 

[Nailgun]

Im surprised no one made any penis jokes LOL

Well, I could've but the question was greatest, not biggest.

 

[sirable1]

L'Hopital's rule. I came over this in first-year Calculus, and it blew my mind - I was like "I can't believe this actually works!".

Second would be Pythagoras theorem.

 

[shuvosaha1612]

Has to be the invention of 0 by the indian mathematician Aryabhata. Without it mathematics would be nothing. There would be no 'nothing in maths', 0 is the solution in which mathematics revolve. Calculus, Intergration, Differenciation, Polynomials, Measurement, Pyathagoras' Theorem, Applied Maths, Probablity, Graphs, Geometry, Matrices, Circle theorems, Indices, Consumer Arithmetic, Surds, Word Problems and etc. all come after this vital concept.