/sci/ - Science & Math

>>7629607
Gödel and Gauss are cooler than Archimedes, but greatest is a very strong word.

Newton. Prove me wrong, bigots.

>>7629607
Heaviside

Only considering greek mathematicians, I would say that Euclid beats him. I don't want to assign the greatest of all time title to any one mathematician as they have all contributed something to particular fields.

>>7629607

In this age, in past ages, in any age, Von Neumann

>>7629607

Euler desu

Fermat

>>7629620
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes_Palimpsest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Method_of_Mechanical_Theorems

Archimedes figured out Calculus 2,000 years before Newton. His work was lost because he was so far ahead of his time and also the retard ages happened. Seriously anon, out of everyone mentioned in this thread you managed to choose not only the most shit tier but the one whose greatest accomplishment had already been worked out by Archimedes himself.

>>7629620
>alchemy is real hurr durr

>retard ages
Hardly. While many ancient works must have been destroyed by monks (such as this recovered palimpsest), if it weren't for their transcribing work, many more would have been lost after the fall of Rome.

>>7629684
>also the retard ages happened
No they didn't. Learn history before you start tipping your fedora over it, idiot.

>>7629684
>MUH MEME AGES GUISE!
>CHRISTIANITY IS EBIL!
>*devours Mooslem cock*

Fuck off.

>>7630404
Gauss
Euler
Euclid
Von Neumann
Riemann
Leibniz

>>7630404
>>7630411
didn't mean to quote you

>>7630404
>>7630040
are you guys saying you dont see any stifling of progress during the time between classical antiquity and the age of enlightenment/scientific revolution?

>>7629667
This. He gets so little recognition on this board.

>>7629667
Gandalf?

>>7629684
kek
Mr. Uga Rog figured out calculus 30000 years before Archimedes. His work was lost because he was so far ahead of his time and also the retard ages happened. Seriously anon, out of everyone mentioned in this thread you managed to choose not only the most shit tier but the one whose greatest accomplishment had already been worked out by Mr. Uga Rog himself.

>>7632513
This, desu. Borrowed a book on algebraic K-theory, his name was in the table of contents a few times. So I am become the sorcerers apprentice...

Any proggress on your stuff, m808?

>>7632682
Yes! Work is killing me, (60 hours a week), but the weekends have been fruitful. Paradigms and flavours are progressing; I have found some deep, sexy dualities between functor categories and internalizations, and there has been some recent progress on categories of models. I ordered a physical copy of the HoTT book because cohesion is making me very tickled. I think that cohesion extends vertically and horizontally in reasonable ways.

>>7632745
Sounds interesting. Good luck, OHP-senpai!

>>7632757
Thank you, fair Anon-kun!

>>7629607
Emmy Noether

>>7629607
me

Archimedes is obviously the correct answer when you consider how what he did laid the foundation for pretty much all of math.

>>7629662
my second choice

>>7633366

I gotta go with Archimedes too, much as I respect Gauss. Archie was so far ahead of his time it's mind blowing.

>>7629684
Nice meme.

Jesus Christ was clearly the greatest mathematician, he created the universe, you have to be good at math to create the universe, therefore Jesus beats everyone. #Christian4life

>>7629636
Didn't he paint his fingernails pink and own a stone sofa?

>>7633483
Nah, the Bible says God just gave commands to create the universe. He probably had angels work out all the math for him, the lazy bastard.

>>7633488
No. That was an unsourced myth.

>>7629607
... the greatest of his time, certainly.
The greatest to ever live, perhaps not.

>>7629607
I'm pretty sure Gauss