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Prehistoric advanced civilizations and past-lives aside, what sole human being has contributed the most to modern "science" since the dawn of written history?

>> No.4970290

him

>> No.4970291
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4970291

Richard Dawkins

>> No.4970295

Troll answer: Michio Kaku
Real answer: Isaac Newton

>> No.4970301

>>4970295
>Michio Kaku

Is that the funny Japanese quantum physics guy?

>> No.4970305

>>4970301
Yes, that is the funny Japanese quantum physics guy.

>> No.4970311
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>>4970295
>Real answer: Isaac Newton

He's second.

No ones contributed more to our understanding of math and science than Pythagoras. We might be several hundred years back if it weren't for him.

>> No.4970313

George Washington Carver

>> No.4970319

The creatures that started to need math to solve daily problems. They go waaaaaaaaaay back.

>> No.4970326 [DELETED] 

>>4970319
Ravens or squirrels?

>> No.4970332

>>4970319
Crows or squirrels?

>> No.4970328

>Hero worship
>A hard science

>> No.4970349

>>4970332

Who knows? Maybe they were the first to know how to use math.

Was math discovered or invented by humans?

>> No.4970367

>>4970349
Aliens gave it to us.

Depends on what you mean by math, I guess. Arithmetic might have been something that some "lesser" species had figured out, even if they couldn't articulate it. Mathematical reasoning and logic like we use now pretty much has to be a human invention, and that's what ends up being more useful (see: >>4970311).

>> No.4970398

>>4970367

Indeed.

Care to elaborate on the "aliens gave it to us" bit?

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>>4970398
Just a little joke.

>> No.4970405

>>4970311
that's entirely unclear. Pythagoras was the leader of a school/cult and may have been attributed the findings of all his little minions. Alone as a "sole human being" I'm not sure he really counts for that much.

Also some people credit the Babylonians for the Pythagorean theorem.

>> No.4970410

The guy who invented the fish hook

>> No.4970418

Should we consider derivations? For example, Newton and Leibniz were the two biggest by far, but Maxwell and Hertz were the fathers of electricity and we know a fuckton more things now thanks to electricity.

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>>4970401

>> No.4970424

>>4970418
You can't give the nod to either Leibniz or Newton though, because they both did the whole calculus thing, thus are redundant. Newton also sucked at optics. there I said it. Bitch thought refractive indices should be natural numbers, complete tard.

>> No.4970425

Euclid maybe

>> No.4970428

>>4970424
I'm not talking only about calculus, so it's not redundant.

>> No.4970429

Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī

>> No.4970432

>>4970428
What else did Leibniz do that was worthwhile?

>> No.4970435

>>4970432
https://www.duckduckgo.com

>> No.4970451

>>4970435
the question was not seeking information but instead being used for rhetorical effect to express an opinion.

>> No.4970819

Euclid
no competition

>> No.4970830 [DELETED] 

>>4970451
But when the question, even if asked rhetorically, has a legitimate answer that was contrary to the point that it was trying to make, one in opposition to that point may choose to answer it

>> No.4970851

>making arbitrary power rankings and lists.

shiggydiggy

>> No.4970863

carl sagan

>> No.4970883

Nikola Tesla.

He was like the electric Jesus.

>> No.4971673

L. Ron Hubbard of course.

>> No.4971685
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Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī

>> No.4971701

>>4970851

You do realize you're on 4chan, right?

>> No.4971725

I would guess at Francis Bacon.

>> No.4971858

Does someone know who founded the system of arabic numerals? This guy is the best one. I mean, do you know how difficult it would be to multiplicate roman numerals or some others? He accelerated the development of math by the most I think and he also made math the easiest it could be.

>> No.4971881

This is a stupid attitude to have. Science is a collaborative effort, we should stop glorifying individuals.