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you can only pick one

>> No.10757076
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>>10757070
Carl Friedrich Gauss

>> No.10757089
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>>10757070
>>10757076
Nice try, but unfortunately you're both incorrect. This is the objectively correct ranking. You're free to disagree, but you cannot refute this.

>> No.10757090

>>10757070
I can't say if he was the GOAT, but Euclid is my favorite mathematician.

>> No.10757163

sorry, but it's Euler

>> No.10757167

I don't rank mathematicians because I don't see mathematics as a popularity contest.

>> No.10757170

GOAThendick

>> No.10757430

>>10757070
>We stand on the shoulders of giants

Any attempt at ranking is distraction on the path of scientific production

>> No.10757760

>>10757090
>I can't say if he was the GOAT

You literally just said "if he was the GOAT."

>> No.10757973
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>> No.10757993
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my heart says Galois but my brain says Euler

>> No.10758010

I cant speak of the greatest, but I can say I like i enjoy their writing orr their proofs. Now unforunately most great mathematicians don't write as much as they should, but John Conway, Paul Halmos, and Michael Atiyah have greatly shaped my interests and skill with their wonderful books that usually target upper undergrad/basic masters level stuff.

In terms of their theorems and shit, Eulers various identities for modular arithmetic is great. Afred Tarski has probably done the most to shape the fields I think about on a daily basis, since I love logic, algebra, and linguistics.

>> No.10758066

>>10757973
Who is the first? I'm not that versed in the history of math

>> No.10758069

>>10757070
euclid.

>> No.10758071

euler is clearly far and above the most prolific mathematician of all time
on a tier below you have gauss, newton, and euclid, along with maybe a few others.

>> No.10758118

>>10758071
>euler is clearly far and above the most prolific mathematician of all time

why do you say that? i'm curious

>> No.10758252

>>10758118
me as well

>> No.10758277

>>10758118
>>10758252
do you know his life story? dude had a fuckton of kids, went blind, all kinds of shit. and he still worked on mathematics from all over the cutting edge for his entire life. he's simultaneously one of the most brilliant and motivated people ever to live. truly transcendental.
i mean fuck, just look at some of the results he comes up with! all without having the proper formalism in front of him, and he doesn't give a shit, he invents all the formalism! even if it wasn't very formal at times, it was all completely correct and founded. people become household names because they discover one thing that euler had already discovered beforehand, dozens of people, because euler already has hundreds of astonishing discoveries.

>> No.10758283

>>10757070
oiler

>> No.10758295

>>10758283
OILER
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>> No.10758299

>>10758295
Seek psychiatric help immediately

>> No.10758303

>>10758299
I-I think you broke him anon...
._."

>> No.10758311
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>>10757070
Ted Kaczynski

>> No.10758395

>>10758311
BASED I was just about to post that.

>> No.10758714
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>> No.10758716

>>10757070
wheeler

>> No.10758723

>>10757070
Oiler.

>> No.10758749

>>10757167
Based and underrated post.
That's what I would say if this wasn't a shitposting thread

>> No.10758754

>>10758066
von Neumann
Besides his work in quantum physics he worked a lot in the sci's beloved field of computer science

>> No.10758765

>>10758714
Based. Can't believed he's not even mentioned in the often shilled charts

>> No.10758898

The X Y graph guy is pretty based, also witgenstein was really important (not directly to maths but using math, which really is the point)

>> No.10758975

I had a guy laying carpet in my office a few years ago. He told me that his sister was "third in math". I guess she should be on the chart near the top.

>> No.10759583

>>10758765
Erdos is always perfect brainlet popsci bait.

>> No.10759591

God. You don't have to believe in him, but you have to believe in his book.

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>>10757070

>> No.10759654

>>10759627
>be a peddler of one of the most popular and sought-after items in all of human history
>have to be shrewd enough to undercut competitors while still maintaining high margins
>have to set up a huge network of buyers and sellers, effectively managing your contacts is more important than the spices themselves
>this by proxy brings him in contact with the richest and most influential figures in the western world
>pretty much exactly the same as how the wittgenstein family began, except their father was an industrialist
>probably began enlisting his sons to help manage the family business at an early age
jesus christ no wonder all of his sons are fucking mathematicians

>> No.10759673

Von Neumann was pretty goat. Can't wait to see von nuemann constructor come to being.

>> No.10759832

>>10759591
Eat a dick.
>>10757170
Based but not number one.

>> No.10760622

>>10759591
based and erdőspilled