Archimedes is not that well known. If you think about it, he nearly discovered the technique of calculus amongst other things and this was ~2000 years before his time.3unitz said:
He's the pioneer of maths and engineering really.
-
Finished your HSC? Check out our University Discussion, Non-School forums or help out next year's HSC students! -
YOU can help the next generation of students in the community! Share your trial papers and notes on our Notes & Resources page
Who is the greatest mathematician ever? (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter shaon0
- Start date
He's the pioneer of maths and engineering really.
For by far the coolest (live fast, die young) life: Evariste Galois.
For prolific-ness (if that's a word): Karl Friedrich Gauss
For most likely to have been not a human: S. Ramanujan (don't ask me to spell his first name)
For sheer overall insanity: Georg Cantor (but there's a lot of contenders for that prize!)
For being compared to a lion by Bernoulli: Isaac Newton
For ridiculously audacious proof of Pi^2/6 formula: Euler.
===============
Overall Euler is probably the one you'd most like to do some maths problems with. He wasn't a complete nutjob like most of the rest of them, and I have a feeling he would have been a great teacher.
For prolific-ness (if that's a word): Karl Friedrich Gauss
For most likely to have been not a human: S. Ramanujan (don't ask me to spell his first name)
For sheer overall insanity: Georg Cantor (but there's a lot of contenders for that prize!)
For being compared to a lion by Bernoulli: Isaac Newton
For ridiculously audacious proof of Pi^2/6 formula: Euler.
===============
Overall Euler is probably the one you'd most like to do some maths problems with. He wasn't a complete nutjob like most of the rest of them, and I have a feeling he would have been a great teacher.
cookiemonsterz
Member
- Joined
- May 29, 2008
- Messages
- 55
- Gender
- Male
- HSC
- 2008
+1 to Einstein... physics is maths, all science is maths.
kaz1
et tu
Bill Pender. His Mathematical jargon is so omg.
independantz
Member
- Joined
- Apr 4, 2007
- Messages
- 409
- Gender
- Male
- HSC
- 2008
All true sciencejm01 said:
- Joined
- Feb 16, 2005
- Messages
- 8,391
- Gender
- Male
- HSC
- 2006
Biology has mathematics in it as well, involving calculus. You'll usually explore this when you take further university level studies in Biology. You don't cover the maths in HSC Biology because you're not expected to know how to use calculus in HSC science courses.
In fact, there is a 3rd year Applied Maths course offered at USyd called Differential Equations and Biomathematics (probably something similar may be offered elsewhere). I quote from their unit outline: (https://ssa.usyd.edu.au/ssa/handboo...ex=175860&session=1&academic_year=2008&back=1)
"The applications in this unit will be drawn from predator-prey systems, transmission of diseases, chemical reactions, beating of the heart and other equations and systems from mathematical biology."
So yes, virtually all areas of science (even social science) has mathematics in it. There is no escape from mathematics.
In fact, there is a 3rd year Applied Maths course offered at USyd called Differential Equations and Biomathematics (probably something similar may be offered elsewhere). I quote from their unit outline: (https://ssa.usyd.edu.au/ssa/handboo...ex=175860&session=1&academic_year=2008&back=1)
"The applications in this unit will be drawn from predator-prey systems, transmission of diseases, chemical reactions, beating of the heart and other equations and systems from mathematical biology."
So yes, virtually all areas of science (even social science) has mathematics in it. There is no escape from mathematics
.Yeah, practically the whole world can be shown in maths.Trebla said:Biology has mathematics in it as well, involving calculus. You'll usually explore this when you take further university level studies in Biology. You don't cover the maths in HSC Biology because you're not expected to know how to use calculus in HSC science courses.
In fact, there is a 3rd year Applied Maths course offered at USyd called Differential Equations and Biomathematics (probably something similar may be offered elsewhere). I quote from their unit outline: (https://ssa.usyd.edu.au/ssa/handboo...ex=175860&session=1&academic_year=2008&back=1)
"The applications in this unit will be drawn from predator-prey systems, transmission of diseases, chemical reactions, beating of the heart and other equations and systems from mathematical biology."
So yes, virtually all areas of science (even social science) has mathematics in it. There is no escape from mathematics
Dragonmaster262
Unorthodox top student
Where's Einstein?
lyounamu
Reborn
- Joined
- Oct 28, 2007
- Messages
- 9,998
- Gender
- Male
- HSC
- N/A
the-derivative
BCom/LLB (UNSW)
- Joined
- Nov 11, 2007
- Messages
- 2,124
- Gender
- Male
- HSC
- 2009
Newton is the greatest mathematician. He's also a bastard for coming up with all the shit he did.
lyounamu
Reborn
- Joined
- Oct 28, 2007
- Messages
- 9,998
- Gender
- Male
- HSC
- N/A
roar84eighty
Member
- Joined
- Sep 16, 2008
- Messages
- 507
- Gender
- Undisclosed
- HSC
- N/A
i like newton
and stunted the growth of physics for 1600 years.