10 Greatest Mathematicians of ALL Time (1 Viewer)

[kurt.physics]

Who do you think is the 10 Greatest mathematicians of all time

Here my list

1. Leonhard Euler
-- because of his many contrubutions, the most elegant, methinks, being e^(πi) + 1 = 0, which i think is the most b-e-a-utiful equation ever (even including e = mc^2)

2. Évariste Galois
-- because he made a mathematical break-through at the age of 15 where he found a neccesary condition for a polynomial to be solved by radicals and later on, at age 19, worked up Galois theory.

5. Carl Gauss
-- Among many of his achievements, one of which was proof of the fundumental theorem of algebra

4. Isaac Newton
-- because he is the "father" of Calculus

5. René Decartes

6. Henri Poincaré

7. Andrew Wiles
-- for his 200 something page long proof of fermats conjugate

8. Elucid

9. Archemedes

10. ME!!! lol

 

[RedZenith]

1. Leonhard Euler
2. Carl Friedrich Gauss
3. Isaac Newton
4. Archimedes
5. Srinivasa Ramanujan
6. Euclid
7. Henri Poincaré
8. Gottfried Liebniz
9. Pierre de Fermat
10. Andrew Wiles (personally I think he's a bit overrated)

 

[buchanan]

I would add Jean-Pierre Serre and Terry Tao to your lists.

It is interesting that you are putting Euler at the top. Often people put Gauss at the top of such lists. Anyway if you are interested in Euler, you may want to read 5 new books on him called

EULER AND MODERN SCIENCE
N. N. Bogolyubov, G. K. Mikhailov, & A. P. Yushkevich, Editors
Translated by Robert Burns

EULER AT 300: AN APPRECIATION
Robert E. Bradley, Lawrence A. D'Antonio, C. Edward Sandifer, Editors

HOW EULER DID IT
C. Edward Sandifer

THE EARLY MATH OF LEONHARD EULER
Edward Sandifer
Volume 1: The MAA Tercentary Euler Celebration

THE GENIUS OF EULER: REFLECTIONS
William Dunham, Editor
Volume 2-The MAA Tercentenary Euler Celebration

 

[gm.haider3000]

why dont u add L hosptal his my favourite i love him soo much xD and who can forget that trig guy i forgot his name but his HOT ill Date his ass any day.. i wana thank him for making my question RIGHT

 

[Captain Gh3y]

Needs more Erdős and also Hilbert

 

[kurt.physics]

Yes Terry Tao is a great mathematician, child protogy. Those books sound interesting. Just one question while im here, is this topic (subject?) "Appreciating the Beauty and Elegence of mathematics" a subject? And how would one participate, is it a school thing?

 

[pLuvia]

Yes Terry Tao is a great mathematician, child protogy. Those books sound interesting. Just one question while im here, is this topic (subject?) "Appreciating the Beauty and Elegence of mathematics" a subject? And how would one participate, is it a school thing?

lol no it's not a subject its just a forum for what the forum name suggests

 

[Kujah]

John Nash.

 

[kurt.physics]

I'll start a new thread, this new one can be "10 most elegant mathematics formulas",

here it is http://community.boredofstudies.org/238/appreciating-beauty-elegance-extracurricular-topics/160292/10-most-elegant-mathematics-formulas.html#post3199903

 

[§eraphim]

In probability, Kolmogorov is king.

Surely, Poisson and Fourier should get a mention as the top classical mathematicians?

 

[Seppuku]

Just one question while im here, is this topic (subject?) "Appreciating the Beauty and Elegence of mathematics" a subject? And how would one participate, is it a school thing?

ACtually its one of the syllabus points of extension 2 maths (if i remember properly). Not that many people do anyway.

 

[vafa]

I would say Alkhawarazmi. He is the father of algebra.

Also you also can have Clairaut.

 

[HappyFeet]

What's so great about Fermat?

1. Euler
2. Sophie Germain
3. Nash
4. Wiles
5. Taniyama-Shimura (for coming up with the conjecture proved by Wiles)
6. Frey (transforming the Fermat equation into an elliptic curve)
7. Gauss
8. Perelman
9. Ramanujan
10. Galois

 

[buchanan]

...
4. Wiles
5. Taniyama-Shimura (for coming up with the conjecture proved by Wiles)
6. Frey (transforming the Fermat equation into an elliptic curve)
...

Taniyama and Shimura are two people, not 1

Wiles didn't prove their conjecture. Breuil, Conrad, Diamond and Taylor did.

Wiles only proved the semistable case which was sufficient to prove Fermat's Last Theorem.

I wrote a 1 page summary <a href="http://www4.tpgi.com.au/nanahcub/summary.pdf">here</a>.

For more details, you can see

- the paper by Breuil, Conrad, Diamond and Taylor at http://math.stanford.edu/~lekheng/flt/bcdt.pdf

- Wiles paper at http://users.tpg.com.au/nanahcub/flt.pdf

- A YouTube video in 5 parts at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiGOxGEbaik

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZliJKFWzLYw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lYL9B_rfrY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXkES1bY0SI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WTcZr-_PWM

 

[beentherdunthat]

ACtually its one of the syllabus points of extension 2 maths (if i remember properly). Not that many people do anyway.

You read the syllabus for EXTENSION 2 MATHS!????!

someone take a shot.

i dont even think jaffars dun that! LOL.

 

[symmetry]

Rubbish about Newton invention of calculus. The concept of infinitesimally small changes were known to Indian mathematician as far back as the 5th century. As I understand it, Newtonian calculus does not include Integration. Leibnitz version of calculus was far more comprehensive. I also think Lagrange also deserve a mention.

 

[stampede]

Rubbish about Newton invention of calculus. The concept of infinitesimally small changes were known to Indian mathematician as far back as the 5th century. As I understand it, Newtonian calculus does not include Integration. Leibnitz version of calculus was far more comprehensive. I also think Lagrange also deserve a mention.

mate you are freaky

join date : sep2004 - 7 years ago

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and thats including this one that u wrote talking to people who had this discussion 4 years ago

holy shit i dont know wat to say