Who is the greatest mathematician ever? (1 Viewer)

[shaon0]

have to say gauss but newton and archimedes are up there too

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.
He's the pioneer of maths and engineering really.

 

[waxwing]

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.

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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]

+1 to Einstein... physics is maths, all science is maths.

 

[kaz1]

Bill Pender. His Mathematical jargon is so omg.

 

[cutemouse]

all science is maths.

Even Biology?

 

[independantz]

Even Biology?

All true science

 

[shaon0]

Even Biology?

population growth of bacteria

 

[Trebla]

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 .

 

[shaon0]

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 .

Yeah, practically the whole world can be shown in maths.

 

[humphdogg]

but then again, applied maths = fail.

 

[moll.]

PYTHAGORAS!!!

Woot!
Getcha right-angled triangles out, people!
It's time to part-ay!

 

[shaon0]

but then again, applied maths = fail.

Depends what you see as pure and applied as the two fields can cross over.
I know this is a bit random but congrats on coming 3rd in Victoria for UMEP Maths.

 

[Dragonmaster262]

Where's Einstein?

 

[peter22]

Either me or Namu.

 

[lyounamu]

Where's Einstein?

um....no

he is more of a physicist than mathematician.

 

[the-derivative]

Newton is the greatest mathematician. He's also a bastard for coming up with all the shit he did.

 

[lyounamu]

Newton is the greatest mathematician. He's also a bastard for coming up with all the shit he did.

lol

 

[roar84eighty]

i like newton

 

[Omium]

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.
He's the pioneer of maths and engineering really.

and stunted the growth of physics for 1600 years.

 

[Omium]

Its either Newton or Euler.