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.