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Who is the greatest mathematician ever? (1 Viewer)

Who is the best mathematician ever?

  • Leonhard Euler

    Votes: 22 16.8%
  • Carl F. Gauss

    Votes: 15 11.5%
  • Archimedes

    Votes: 8 6.1%
  • Isaac Newton

    Votes: 52 39.7%
  • Euclid

    Votes: 9 6.9%
  • Other

    Votes: 25 19.1%

  • Total voters
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This is a pretty strange poll...

If we look at the development of calculus the key role was probably played by Archimedes' discovery of how to square a parabola segment.

In the 19th century Riemann and Galois perhaps had the most significant legacy.

In the 20th century no one was nearly as influential as Grothendieck.
 

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I would say Euler or Gauss. I think Joseph Lagrange has alot of really interesting theories too.

At the moment the best mathematians would be Terry Tao & Grigori Perelman (for solving poincare conjecture)
 

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Archimedes - Crystalinks

Legend has it that Archimedes discovered his famous theory of buoyancy (Archimedes Principle) while taking a bath. He was so excited that he ran naked through the streets of Syracuse shouting "Eureka, eureka (I have found it)!".
ofmg archimedes is now my favorite engineer and mathematician of all time.

fuck yeah.
 

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Vote #1 Archimedes

The engineer who ran through a street naked.
Shit when was the last time an engineer ran naked through a street after making a remarkable discovery?
 

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have to go with newton because of calculus. since most stuff need calculus to be solved, and plus most of the 3u and 4u math content is related or based on calculus. most importantly, i love calculus lol, the only part in school where i got 100% in for 3u and 4u math XD
 

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p ramanujam of india was the greatest mathematician.Unfortunately he died very young.This is accepted by Einstein even.

bye
peter
 

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Cem Giray is the best mathematician ever, no doubt about it. :guitar:
 

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every stupid kid in this forum are, duh it was the whole point of this thread. Damn arrogant nerds.
 

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Lol people actually have favourite mathematicians!?
Go out party and do thing you will regret later like a normal HSC student:spzz:
 

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