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Anonymous Mon Jan 2 18:32:56 2012 No.4210197 [Reply] [Original]

poll time:
greatest mathematician still alive + reason.
go

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 18:36:20 2012 No.4210209 Alexandre Grothendieck: because he is Alexandre Grothendieck

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 18:37:36 2012 No.4210216 File: 353 KB, 500x357, 3448829056_c040d8d353_o[1].png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I doubt that any other mathematicians use their mathematical powers to simulate alternate realities.

>>	GL !Bgpe2HycPk Mon Jan 2 18:37:36 2012 No.4210217 What's the name of this guy who invented vortex math?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 18:39:52 2012 No.4210224 Vašek Chvátal solved art gallery problem + improved optimization methods with the use of cutting planes (Gomori helped too)

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 19:00:16 2012 No.4210321 bump. i like reading wikipedia articles of smart people.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 19:02:31 2012 No.4210327 terrence tao infinite spaceing between prime numbers

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 19:09:19 2012 No.4210359 >>4210327 2,3 no number between them, unless you mean non-integers but that was known already

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