/sci/ - Science & Math

there are many more people that deserve to be that "5th" than Banneker, i applaud him for being a great mind, self taught at a time of racism...but he is not a All Time Great mathematician

>>8409236
don't forget George Washing Carver

>>8409236
Benneker was a man before his time, a unique character, and a based nigger all around. I vote to include him.

>>8409243
What makes you think he is in the same level as Newton or Archimedes...and especially Gauss or Euler in math

yes he didn't have all the opportunities that others had, had to deal with racism, but we still have to judge him on his achievements.

>>8409245
He disproved the slave conundrum. It was thought that Slave+White=/=Mathematician, he proved that it was conditionally false.

>>8409266
come on man... He was a great mind, but he isn't on the same level as the other 4 mentioned when it comes to math

Where's Barnett?

>>8409279
LOL what made Newton a mathematician, dude was a physicist

Newton was not a mathematician, Leibniz calculus was superior

Archimedes
Gauss
Euler
Cauchy
Ramanujan

WE WUZ MATHMATICIAN N SHIET NIGGA

>>8409279
Every team has to have a cheerleader.
>tfw no alcoholic black mathematician on my team

As good as Banneker I think I'll disagree and say he doesn't have chops to make the top five.

Even among blacks with people like David Blackwell existing he's not top tier. Banneker is definitely important from a historical perspective but not at the top of the game in the field.

>>8409312
is David Blackwell a top 5 mathematician of the 20th century?

von Neumann
Euler
Gauss
Cauchy
Tao

>>8409293
kek

>>8409288
I would put Grothendieck over Ramnujan to be honest, but i agree with your other 4

>>8409379
damm Cauchy is mentioned alot

wasn't he kind of a radical catholic asshole though

>>8409236
Euler, Gauss, Lagrange, Hamilton, Bernoulli

>>8409408
Hamilton?

>>8409421
Rowan Hamilton
> invented vector mechanics
> started the search for symmetries
> the first man who could divide 3-vectors

>>8409401
Dunno why that takes away from his contribution to maths, reddit

>>8409474
what is Cauchy famous for

>>8409545
Inventing complex analysis
Inventing epsilon delta

>>8409545
>>>/plebbit/

>>8409287
Troll?

>>8409585
Well you are posting in a literal troll thread

>>8409236
Euler
Gauss
Hilbert
Poincaré

>>8409373

He has several theorems name after him, won a von Neumann prize and published in multiple fields so he's at least in the top 100, maybe 50 depending on who you allow as a contributor to mathematics.

>>8409705
Well i would put Hilbert, Von Neumann, Kohlmogorov, Grothendieck, Ramanujan in front of Blackwell

>>8409236
Is this a meme? Leibniz was much greater than numaleton.

>>8409879
>Ramanumalejan
Fuck off

Archimedes did literally jack shit in maths lol not sure if ppl at this thread are being srs desu xD i coulda said the same he said same with aristotle or steve jobs

>>8409879

And that's perfectly fine honestly, I was just noting that Blackwell is the more notable candidate compared to Banneker.

>>8409287

>>8409671
Nice list, but what about #5?

>Gauss in every list
MY NIGGAS

He's like me. He was raised in a merchant world. Among numbers and prices. His prodigy was fed by his environment.

I love Gauss!

>>8409236
I disagree completely except for Euler.

Wtf is this shit list?

>>8409287
Shush

Not in any particular order:

Grothendieck,
Mochizuki,
Neumann,

To this day their work is not completely understood or appreciated.

Minor contributors:

Tao,
Wiles,
Perelman.

Euler, Gauss, Newton, etc... are memes.

>>8409236
Stop doing it, I can't decide.

>>8410233
What about Leibniz

>>8410233
>falling for /sci/ memes THIS HARD

>>8410351
There's a good reason they are revered individuals.
Grothendieck is widely celebrated, not only here on /pol/.
Neumann was simply outstanding.
I had a picture of him printed on the wall of my bedroom even before knowing about /sci/.
Last but not least, about Mochizuki, read the whole article:
http://www.nature.com/news/the-biggest-mystery-in-mathematics-shinichi-mochizuki-and-the-impenetrable-proof-1.18509?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNew

>>8410370
>on /pol/
>/pol/
these are the people who start Grothendieck circlejerk threads despite not being able to define a category

>>8410381
I started studying Mac Lanes' book but put it aside as I haven't finished yet with logic and set theory.
Grothendieck's circlejerk is essentially the majority of the mathematical community.

>>8409236
GauB, Oiler, von Neumann, Barnett, and then either Wiles or Wildberger
>>8409242
Yes I too like George Lincoln Rockwell, but he wasn't a mathematisian.

Archimedes
Newton
Leibniz
Euler
Gauss

>>8410519
>Barnett
Who?

>>8410549
Le autism man

Gauss, Euler, von Neumann, Leibniz, Newton

>>8409545

Cauchy sequences
Cauchy-Schwarz inequality
Cauchy-Riemann equations

That's what I can name without asking google

So many greats not mentioned. Sure, 5 is a little too few to make a good list, but come on, no Euclid yet?

My list (leaving out obvious ones and instead listing greats I personally like):
Cantor
Hilbert
Gödel
Turing
Nash

>>8410685
great list :)

agree

How has Erdos not even earned a mention?

>>8411250
Really depends on how you read the OP.

Erdos might have been top 5 in intellect, and he's certainly top 5 in his influence on math culture, but there's really no way you could say he was one of the 5 most important people to mathematics.
Erdos spent almost all his time solving one-off problems. That doesn't have the same impact on mathematics as a whole as people like Cauchy or Hilbert who built the skeleton more or less all modern math is draped over.

>>8411270
damm i don't get why people are still mentioning Cauchy

the dude was a radical catholic

>>8411304
>the dude was a radical catholic
like wanted reforms in catholicism?
oh no?

>>8411304
>he was Christian so he obviously couldn't be a good mathematician

Brahmagupta - Indian mathematician who fully developed the concept of Zero in 7th century AD.

Jacobi Bartnett blows all of the above out the water

>>8411487
All those Jews are Ashkenazi Jews which means they probably have alot of White Blood in them anyways

>>8411404
yes but is he on the same level as Gauss or Euler?

>>8409236
>Turing not on the list

>>8411486
>Jacobi Bartnett blows
that's what I thought, too

>tfw no shannon (information theory), no hamming (coding theory), no von neumann (game theory, von neumann architechture, literally everything)

>>8410737
transfinite sets are bullshit

>>8409382

The problem with currynigga is that, even if he had a very brilliant mind, he did not produced any valuable maths, just useless pi-series. Even the average PhD student in MIT is more valuable than Ramanujan.

>>8409401

EVERY great mathematicians were christians. Newton, Gauss, Cauchy, Euler... There are NOT great atheists mathematicians.

>>8411941
Gauss was atheist i thought...Euler was christian

N G E C W

>>8409236
he looks like the what what in my butt dude

>>8411499
>"benneker wuz muh ancester!"
>we wuz math n shed!
You trumplets aren't different.

KEK

Euler, Gauss, Weierstrass, Riemann and Poincaré

>>8409408
> Lagrange
Every field of math I study there is a "Lagrange's Theorem". And they are always really cool.

>>8410737
>no Euclid yet?
Well said anon.
Einstein talked about "my holy Euclid"