/sci/ - Science & Math

>alive today
well I would've said Hawking up till now but desu I'm a bit lost on what to answer to this question

>>10256164
Satoshi Nakamoto

>>10256164
pic related will be considered the best in 1000 years

>>10256164
>newton, einstein, euler, maxwell
>tesla
kys

>>10256165
>blackholes lmao
hawking is overrated. he is only known because he wrote a few books for normies to understand the current understanding of the universe, and he overachieved despite his physical conditions. He is smart no doubt but not on the level of newton einstein maxwell.

>>10256243
he's still the most famous guy around today. Enstein, newtown, maxwell, etc were all well known during their time they didn't just pop out of nowhere

probably peter higgs because he has a goddamn elementary particle named after him

have there been any huge paradigm-shifting mathematicians since grothendieck

No - mathematics is irrelevant. No one cares.

Who is the most important living physicist? Murray Gell-Mann, maybe?

>>10256164
Maybe if someones grand unifying theory pans out.
Otherwise most of those guys were hot-shit in their day. Its not like einstein, maxwell, or newton wallowed in obscurity in their day.

Surely all the nobel prize winners are worthy of note!

>>10256847
Me

>>10257266
So who are the least obscure scientists currently living?

>>10257270
philip roth should have won the prize in literature ;(

>>10257278
what have you contributed?

>>10257291
neil. degrasse. tyson.

>>10256164
Elon Musk
Also that guy whom solved that millennium prize problem.

>>10257312
>whom

>>10257325
>whoms't

>>10256164
Witten if string theory pans out

>>10257337
how would it "pan" out in the first place? isn't it impossible to test?

>>10257278
Haruhi-anon, is that you?

>>10256243
>einstein
>on the same level as Newton or Maxwell
"you made this? I made this"
- (((einstein)))

>>10257278
You forgot your trip, The Lord

terrence tao
jacob barnett
chris langan

John H Conway

>>10256190
>10256190

this

>>10257278

>>10257352
no you just need a LHC the diameter of the milky way

Probably Andrew Wiles.

>>10256250
He isn't around anymore. Unfortunately, he died earlier this year.

>>10257615
>poltard

>>10256164

I know that lon Musk isn't a scientist or mathematician in the sense that you meant, but he will be grouped with the people you listed in the public consciousness in future generations.

>>10256190
literally this

>>10256164
>implying science will exist in 200 years

>>10256164
Are any of those people really super famous? I guess Einstein is but he wasn't really a mathematician. People generally know that theres some story where an apple fell on Newton's head but I'm not sure that qualifies as him being famous as a mathematician.

They're all "famous" if you're a nerd. And, for example, Terry Tao will probably be kind of famous in 100 years (if "fame" just means some nerds have heard of him)

>>10256164
I think it is going to be people like Alan Turing or Tim Berners Lee (alive), if you care to call computer science people "Scientists"

>>10257737
>poltard
He is known to be a plagiarist and to simply steal work from others. His most famous attempt at "you made this? I made this" is taking Lorenz transformations and proclaiming them to be his own invention.

Gregori perelman, andrew wiles( fermat guy) , john nash , cedric villani .

>>10259591
so a couple guys who proved meme theorems, a fields medalist who you know about from youtube videos, and a guy whos dead that has a shitty movie based on him

>>10257963
Musk would probably be grouped together with people like Henry Ford, Howard Hughes etc or Edison and the Wright Brothers. Not scientist or mathematicians who get theories or discoveries named after them, but entrepreneurs who'll be remembered by the inventions and companies they build.

>>10257985
name one person who lived 200 years ago (or more) that is famous. for example, caesar. Average human still knows a few stories and that's it. Only history nerds know more.

>>10257737
he clearly is nowhere near newton

>>10259777
i don't think anyone even knows stories about caesar except maybe that he was roman and a salad named after him

>>10259777
>name one person who lived 200 years ago (or more) that is famous.
Jesus Christ. People know LOTS of stories about Him :).

>>10259591
Perelman and Wiles proved one major result. That's based, but not "Newton-tier fame in 200 years".
Nash essentially rebuilt the foundation of game theory, but game theory isn't that big. Also, major contributions to differential geometry that normies will probably never know about.
You overestimate Villaini.

Tbqh, if other sciences find out about Grothendieck and start applying his techniques I could see him reaching Einstein-tier fame, but that's very dubious.

>>10259788
most people in the world don't

>>10259800
Everyone at least knows about the nativity, the crucifixion, and the resurrection.

>>10259804
like everyone knows about apple, calculus and him being secluded about newton

>>10259817
Also the baptism, the temptation, the Sermon on the Mount, the miracles (walking on water, water into wine, bread & fish), the parables (Good Samaritan, Prodigal Son), the twelve apostles, the betrayal of Judas, the Last Supper, and the kiss of Judas.

>calculus and him being secluded
Most people probably don't even know about this stuff! I know I didn't until I started studying calculus.

>>10259831
i don't know 80% of things you just told about jesus. not all people are christians and most of the christians don't go to church often. also, most of the "things" about jesus might not be true. it's like saying "everyone knows batman beats joker"

>>10256854
good post

>>10259847
>i don't know 80% of things you just told about jesus.
You might not know them by name, but I'm certain you're aware of the majority of them to at least some extent. If you've ever heard the phrase "Get thee behind me, Satan!" or "Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name", then you know this stuff. It's so permeated world culture that you can't avoid knowing it! Face it: Jesus is way bigger than any of your science favorite nerds. Newton would agree.

>most of the "things" about jesus might not be true.
Doesn't really matter since you have no idea. Do you think the apple story about Newton is true? It might be completely made up!

>>10259869
*favorite science nerds

>>10259869
i don't know almoast anything you just said abut the man and i'm sure billion of chinese and a billion of indians don't know it either. also, he's one man. so he's the only one who's famous?? that was what i initally said

>>10256196
He's been sniffing those markers.

>>10259889
Plenty of missionaries have visited both China and India and have spread the Good News. I'm sure many of them know many of these stories.

>>10256164
me

>>10259915
please stop you inbred idiot. why is it that retards always interpret things literally?

>>10257615
holy shit openly naming the Jew in Sci.... What a timeline

>>10259935
I will pray for you.

>>10259969
>>10257615
Just a reminder that Jesus Christ was a Jew, and that anti-Semitism goes against His message of universal love. I will pray for you.

>>10259977
prime argument

>>10259995
Insulting people isn't much of an argument in the first place! I hope you mend your ways.

>>10256847
http://www.vixra.org/author/jonathan_w_tooker

>>10260120
Not sure the mathematical community would be convinced by this material.

>>10256164
Wiles for solving Fermat's Last Theorem™
Ted Kaczynski, though for the wrong reasons

>>10260243

Let me clear it up, they definitively are not.

>>10260120
Noob. You can't prove the number of numbers between 2 integers, only that the number begins to approach 1 of 2 states. Prime numbers hold this truth.

>>10260120
>http://www.vixra.org/author/jonathan_w_tooker
Lol, good read

>>10260120
Youre proof is absolutely retarded to the point anyone with just a bit of university math knowledge will laugh at it.
Stop wasting time spamming your retarded work on this board and go get a job you fucking derelict spaz.

>>10257737
>Hilbert

>>10256164
Who cares? The world is being run by code monkeys and lawyers. Unless someone figures out how to manipulate gravity, none of their accimplishments will really matter.

>>10259788
>implying Jesus actually lived

>>10257615
>>10259588
Only those with no knowledge of the history of physics in the late 19th/early 20th century make that claim. Come on, post the meme image, /pol/tards. You know you want to.

>>10256164
>tesla
Get the fuck out

Otherwise, most of those you listed are famous for establishing major fields (e.g. Newton) or being seminal polymaths (e.g. Euler, Gauss). I would say that modern mathematics is "too big" for polymaths to exist at the same level, and any field created is going to be so esoteric and specific that its establishment will go unnoticed by anyone outside the circle of ~20 people who understand it. So, there will probably be no mathematician alive today that will be a household name.

If it took Benedict Cumberbatch to make Turing a household name, then the moderns have no chance.

Mochizuki.

>>10256190
Why? Blockchain is a fraud

>>10256869
Thouless

>>10259985
christcuck bait

>>10259869
I'm really sorry, buddy, but this is not relevant to the topic of the thread at all.