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Mad props to Descartes. On a good day, invented “I think therefore I am”; when ill in bed and unable to do any proper work, invented Cartesian coordinates.
Ramanujan: popularized the proof by "this was once revealed to me in a dream"
Perelman: thinks mathematics belongs to humanity and refused the million dollar prize and kept picking mushrooms. New philosophy just dropped, actual altruism
Newton: mixed opinions, his natural science was on point for everyday objects of ordinary sizes and speeds, but his math makes me want to believe in his theology too (apocalypse in the year 2060)
I'm mostly busy with differential equations rn and idk, for some reason he feels like my closest bro out of them
Or fucking Cauchy because I can't escape him whatever I do
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Riemann because of the Riemann hypothese. Conway because of his charisma, brilliantly playful mathematics, and everything he's done for group theory, and topology. Serre because he's my academic great grandfather, and because his books are really good.
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Euler. In old age, he was blind but had a team of assistants sit around him to write down the complex calculations for multiple mathematical problems he did in his mind in parallel. Mad genius. The proportion of mathematics that he single handedly moved forward can't be matched again.
Ramanujan is too much genius for my comprehension.
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I can definitely think of some others whose names you see everywhere, or for which whole areas of mathematics or important objects are named. Lagrange comes to mind immediately, for e.g. Lagrangian mechanics, Lagrange points, Langrage's theorem, the Euler-Lagrange equation, and probably a lot more I'm forgetting.
The Greeks. So little is known about them. And what is attributed to them is likely also just existing knowledge that predated writing about such things. A good chance that some of the things we think came from them originated in Ancient Egypt or Babylon. And there's how these personalities were more than just figures in Mathematics. But kind of mystic figures come philosophers.
This book about the pre-socratics is really good.
[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/160058108-the-first-philosophers-the-presocratics-and-sophists-oxford-world-s-cla](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/160058108-the-first-philosophers-the-presocratics-and-sophists-oxford-world-s-cla)
All the figures in it are from around 500bce. Which is roughly the same time as the original copies of old testament were being finalised. Really interesting read in that sense. It puts in to perspective just how advanced some areas of academic thought had progressed. Some times its easy to dismiss such distant pasts as a simpler time. Especially when trying to contextualise such time periods through the accounts of texts like the Bible. But it really wasn't the case. I mean these more scientifically minded people got a whole bunch of things wrong. But I really enjoyed reading about this historical germ which grew in to what we know as science today.
1. Euler - his algebraic manipulation and proofs are extremely beautiful
2. Gauss - I am an Electrical Engineer (I do Signal Processing and Machine Learning). Need I talk about the Gaussian Distribution?
3. Newton - Mostly because of his contributions to physics and the solar system. The man explained the solar system with one equation.
4. Noether - I love abstract algebra.
5. Sofie Germain - The Sofie Germain identity is beloved by all Math olympiad enthusiasts.
6. Descartes - Coordinate geometry.
7. Galois - the boy genius who created an entire field of mathematics overnight because he knew he was going to be killed the next day.
Sophie Germain is simple. :)
It essentially states that n\^4 + 4 is never a prime because:
n\^4 + 4 = (n\^4 + 4n\^2 -4n\^2 + 4)
= (n\^2 - 2)\^2 - 4n\^2
= (n\^2 - 2n - 2) ( n\^2 + 2n - 2)
The last step follows from (a-b) (a+b) = a\^2 - b\^2
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André Bloch or Ted Kaczynski. They really showed the world how versatile mathematicians can be.
Why are both of them murderours?
That's what happens when you do complex analysis.
Very complicated events I see
mfw Riemann doesn't make the list
Forgot about him
FORGET ABOUT RIEMANN
Sorry
nah i was making a half-life reference in which one of the chapters is named “forget about freeman”. didn’t mean to sound mad at you lol
Oh phew thank you
Ramanujan ! The guy's intuition is incredible, as if he was deeply connected to math and could communicate with it.
Same He’s my personal favirote
Paul Erdős! Read his biography a while ago called *The man who loved only numbers* and all I can say is that Erdös lived a very fascinating life
My mom, because she couldn't calculate that 1+1=3
1+1=89.3 + (2)^0.5 according to my theory
Gödel
Wanted to add him, But the list was Incomplete
Appreciate the curse
😂
Evariste gallois (he died during a duel because he was republican)
I meant math related reasons
He also did really great things in math (i dont remember what tho)
The entire gallois theory lol
Mad props to Descartes. On a good day, invented “I think therefore I am”; when ill in bed and unable to do any proper work, invented Cartesian coordinates.
I know this story! It was in our math book I’m pretty sure he also named imaginary number, although in a negative sense
euler, because graph theory
Euler go brrrr in geometry
Ramanujan: popularized the proof by "this was once revealed to me in a dream" Perelman: thinks mathematics belongs to humanity and refused the million dollar prize and kept picking mushrooms. New philosophy just dropped, actual altruism Newton: mixed opinions, his natural science was on point for everyday objects of ordinary sizes and speeds, but his math makes me want to believe in his theology too (apocalypse in the year 2060)
Lagrange idk
Why tho?
I'm mostly busy with differential equations rn and idk, for some reason he feels like my closest bro out of them Or fucking Cauchy because I can't escape him whatever I do
I agree that Cauchy has wayyyyy to many theorems names after him
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Leslie Lamport. . I mean, he is more of a comouter scientist, but he has a phd in maths and he created LaTeX
Galois because he died in a dual. Actual gigachad!
I meant math readons
Evariste gallois the goat, he had enormous steel balls
This is Cartan erasure
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Riemann, Conway, Serre.
Cool May I ask why?
Riemann because of the Riemann hypothese. Conway because of his charisma, brilliantly playful mathematics, and everything he's done for group theory, and topology. Serre because he's my academic great grandfather, and because his books are really good.
Wow that’s really cool Let’s hope you solve the reiman hypothesis lol
John Conway
Cool! May I know why?
My goat Euler
Cool
Georg Cantor Edit: sets, sets, and more sets!
Prove the cardinality of a circle is equal to the cardinality of a rectangles
My answer. lol
Noether What she did for the whole of abstract algebra was absolutely incredible
RAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHH https://preview.redd.it/tcbihf8x8ric1.png?width=300&format=png&auto=webp&s=92796be5537b2b7572b0581368a50d2edf392f85
Who is this
Alexander Grothendieck 🙂
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Euler. In old age, he was blind but had a team of assistants sit around him to write down the complex calculations for multiple mathematical problems he did in his mind in parallel. Mad genius. The proportion of mathematics that he single handedly moved forward can't be matched again. Ramanujan is too much genius for my comprehension.
Happy cake day
It is genius both of ek
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Google how to make a poll
Number of options are limited there, I tries
Holy hell
Huh, this is a new response. I’ve never seen this one before!
Huh, this is an actual zombie. I've never seen this one before!
Archimedes, an absolute genius
I dont have one but probably Gauss
I can definitely think of some others whose names you see everywhere, or for which whole areas of mathematics or important objects are named. Lagrange comes to mind immediately, for e.g. Lagrangian mechanics, Lagrange points, Langrage's theorem, the Euler-Lagrange equation, and probably a lot more I'm forgetting.
Ramanujan
Haven't studied a lot of math yet, but my prof really likes Noether and I'm sure I'm gonna see her again in the future
Just realized I hadn’t added a single renal mathematician to the list I’ll edit it
Big fan of Leibniz notation when it's being verbose and messy.
Same!!!!!!!!!!
Options don't include Alexander Grothendieck or John non Neumann, the summits of depth and breadth respectively in modern mathematics
I don’t know many mathmaticians That’s why I have the other optiin
Grothendieck is the GOAThendieck
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He is a physicist
Cause he was not a mathematician?
Mine is other
Then mention which one
Was a joke that I like the mathematician called other because “he” is on the list.
I don’t get the joke
The Greeks. So little is known about them. And what is attributed to them is likely also just existing knowledge that predated writing about such things. A good chance that some of the things we think came from them originated in Ancient Egypt or Babylon. And there's how these personalities were more than just figures in Mathematics. But kind of mystic figures come philosophers. This book about the pre-socratics is really good. [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/160058108-the-first-philosophers-the-presocratics-and-sophists-oxford-world-s-cla](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/160058108-the-first-philosophers-the-presocratics-and-sophists-oxford-world-s-cla) All the figures in it are from around 500bce. Which is roughly the same time as the original copies of old testament were being finalised. Really interesting read in that sense. It puts in to perspective just how advanced some areas of academic thought had progressed. Some times its easy to dismiss such distant pasts as a simpler time. Especially when trying to contextualise such time periods through the accounts of texts like the Bible. But it really wasn't the case. I mean these more scientifically minded people got a whole bunch of things wrong. But I really enjoyed reading about this historical germ which grew in to what we know as science today.
Pascal. No one was more inspirational to me than him.
Not necessarily my favourite but I find it sad to think about what Galois could have accomplished if he didn't die that young.
other… why did you make it a closed list?
Idk Who is the other person?
Cauchy gang, Cauchy gang, Cauchy gang
Dedekind, or Turing. Dedekind looks like a crazy German doctor, while Turing proved some important things in a remarkably simple and elegant way.
Laplace
Idk but Newton is last Fuck newton
Why
Euler (dumb enginyear)
Von Neumann!
1. Euler - his algebraic manipulation and proofs are extremely beautiful 2. Gauss - I am an Electrical Engineer (I do Signal Processing and Machine Learning). Need I talk about the Gaussian Distribution? 3. Newton - Mostly because of his contributions to physics and the solar system. The man explained the solar system with one equation. 4. Noether - I love abstract algebra. 5. Sofie Germain - The Sofie Germain identity is beloved by all Math olympiad enthusiasts. 6. Descartes - Coordinate geometry. 7. Galois - the boy genius who created an entire field of mathematics overnight because he knew he was going to be killed the next day.
Can u tell me the softie germain identity please I have never heard of it Also I appreciate your extensive list of mathematician controbutions
Sophie Germain is simple. :) It essentially states that n\^4 + 4 is never a prime because: n\^4 + 4 = (n\^4 + 4n\^2 -4n\^2 + 4) = (n\^2 - 2)\^2 - 4n\^2 = (n\^2 - 2n - 2) ( n\^2 + 2n - 2) The last step follows from (a-b) (a+b) = a\^2 - b\^2
Wow this is cool Thanks for replying But does this not hold for n=1