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So guys, who are your favorite scientists and mathematicians?

Obama answered this question (dropped obscure names)

why can't you?

>> No.2433316
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2433316

God Tier

>> No.2433314

>have 10 brilliant writers for everything I ever say ever

yeah if i were obama i'd have something to say too.

>> No.2433320

>>2433314
it was in a question and answer thing.

>> No.2433328

gödel

>> No.2433330

Heaviside was fucking god tier. He trolled the shit out of academics and didn't give a fuck. He was also a total shut-in. 4chan material born too soon.

>> No.2433329

Carl Sagan: brought Science to the masses by explaining it with terms non-mathematicians could understand.

Einstein: do I need to explain why?

All Scientists: Science stands on the shoulders of the science and philosophy that came before it.

ps: do i lose points for naming scientists people have heard of? is this a, "name obscure scientists to be hipster cool" thread?

>> No.2433336

Benjamin Franklin

>> No.2433338
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>>2433316
>>2433316
>>2433316
>>2433316
>>2433316
>>2433316
I approve.

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>>2433316
This

>> No.2433342

>>2433340
>>2433340
>>2433340
FUCK YEAR.
Just watched Can We Make It To Mars on NSN.

>> No.2433343
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Richard Feynman

>> No.2433348

>>2433316
>>2433338


Fuck yeah.

>> No.2433349

Favourite mathematicians:

Benoit Mandelbrot, Ken Ribet, Barry Mazur, Andrew Wiles, Evariste Galois, and Godel.

Like Godel, I don't believe in the empirical science.

>> No.2433353

>>2433343

him, einstein of course, grigori perlman for being a badass

donella meadows

>> No.2433356
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Leibniz. Inventor of calculus and popular with the ladies (unlike a certain Englishman).

>> No.2433361

>>2433349
>Like Godel, I don't believe in the empirical science.

Yet you're a fan of Mandelbrot.

>> No.2433368

>>2433316
>MFW people try to compare him to Sagan

>> No.2433370

>>2433356
did that certain Englishman really die a virgin? Don't know where that rumor came from

>> No.2433375

>>2433368
He's the closest we've got these days, excluding Brian Cox.

>> No.2433378

>>2433361
Well, I guess it should be described more as a love-hate relationship.

>> No.2433381

>>2433368
Oh, you mean just because they both make the world of science accessible to the general public?

Yeah, I clearly do not see the connection.

Also, nice face.

>> No.2433404

>>2433378
Nothing wrong with that!
:_)

>> No.2433409

>>2433370
I tihnk it was also rumored he was homosexual.

>> No.2433420

>>2433409
I thought Fourier was the father of engineering.

>> No.2433557
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David Hilbert. What a gentleman.

>> No.2433591
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>Scientist

Tesla. He was my childhood hero 'cuz that motherfucker almost made energy guns. Deal with it.

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Jacque Fresco.

>> No.2433608

Kalman, Godel, Turing, Erdos, Euler, Gauss, Riemann, Archimedes

>> No.2433629

Who did Obama name?

>> No.2433920

von neumann for sure

>> No.2433926

Because I'm not trying to destroy science in America.

>> No.2433936

Gauss, Euler, Cantor.
Planck, Maxwell, Einstein.

>> No.2433974

Siegfried Hoyer and Herve Perron are two of my favorite scientists. They aren't especially well known, but they both have published some very interesting papers providing new insight into the basis of neurodegenerative disease.

>> No.2434107

>>2433316
Met this man. Got a pic with him. Best sci bro ever. His speech was awesome

>> No.2434169

euclid of alexandria

>> No.2434693

>2433316

who is this man?

>> No.2434732
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Sagon and Erdos

>> No.2434750

Charles Babbage, and John Bardeen are probably the weirder two. But of course the list would have to include all the particularly famous ones like Newton, Euler, Gauss, and so forth.

>> No.2434754

Grigori Perlman, a brilliant man in it for the love of math.

>> No.2434778

Enrico Fermi, Feynman, JC Maxwell, Tesla of course... hmmm who else.. Pythagoras was fairly pimp.. Lorentz, Planck, Hilbert... There are a lot of cool scientists

>> No.2434852

>>2433312
Mine change a lot depending on what my ocd is focused on atm.
Right now I like: AC Greyling
Carl Sagan
Lawrence Krauss
Richard Dawkins

To a lesser degree Stephen Hawking and Neil Tyson.

I'll say ahead of time this list says nothing about relative greatness, each has their significant contributions. This merely shows what I have been spending inordinate amounts of time reading about for no other reason than personal interest.

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>>2433312
Obama doesn't know science. What kinda science nerd watches basketball highlights on youtube. He just named some guy he knowns whose on his council who was probably recommended by somebody he knew from his Harvard days. Thats it. That man does not know science.

BTW mine is Alan Turning, nigga is bomb.

>> No.2434860

Steven Pinker, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Stuart Brand, Carl Sagan

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>>2434856
He also took it in the pooper. If given the chance I would have boned him, he is an attractive man and a brilliant mind.

Pic related, my current favorite .... well I guess he is more of a figure head.

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>> No.2434913

Darwin

Hawking

Dawkins

Best trolls.

>> No.2434920

Does anyone know who Obama namedropped?

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Holy shit, this is grounds for divorce /sci/. No one's yet mentioned Roger Penrose.....

>> No.2434955

>>2434913
To be fair to Darwin he didn't mean to troll every one. Dawkins and and Hawking are both in it for the trollage.

>> No.2434956

>>2434920
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka3m_afbnfU&feature=channel
Oh, here's the video of Obama's favorite scientists.

>> No.2434958

>>2434920
Eric Lander
He named him half way through this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqoeuIlaxRc

>> No.2435289

Dawkins (because science), Turing, Kant (Objective ethics, fuck yes).

Ok he wasn' a scientist, but while I'm at it, FUCK YOU PLATO. BURN IN HELL.

>> No.2435303

E.T. Jaynes

>> No.2435307

>Obama asked his favorite mathematician or scientists
>Says his favorite mathematician is a biologist he met once.
>Obama knows no scientific or mathematical history.
>mfw

>> No.2435310

Carl Sagan and although a engineer, Robert Zubrin.

>> No.2435380

Claude Shannon

>> No.2435388

georges cuvier

>> No.2435395

>>2435307
genetics involves a lot of math and he even wrote a book on information theory, which is applied mathematics. a lot of information theory also involves advanced number theory.

>> No.2435406

>>2435307
My father has a degree in law. He cant add difficult fractions

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I have secondary favorites like einstein, jack kilby, newton, and benjamin franklin.

However, my ultimate supreme favorite is, and will always be, Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci,

Not that I need to defend this choice, but I'm so enamored with this man I feel justified in listing his accomplishments.

He took to explaining the world in a rational and systematic way, you might consider him the first scientist. His anatomical drawings are so accurate they are still used to this day. He made realizations and innovations centuries before the concepts became mainstream, i.e. flight, physiology, robotics etc.

possibly the greatest person to ever live.

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>>2434955
UNINTENTIONAL TROLLING IS THE BEST TROLLING.

>> No.2435434

If I had to make a list. I suppose it will be hard to top Einstien. Second I suppose would be newton. I suppose Fourier and Gauss can be 3rd.

>> No.2435451

>>2434778

oooooh yeah, tesla I add him to my fave 5

>> No.2435495
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Question.
Can I be my favorite scientist?
Seriously why would I chose someone else over myself (how low does one's self esteem have to be)?

Anyway if not, I would have to go with Schrödinger.
Temporary zombie cat.

Thought I had a Schrödinger related pic somewhere.
Apparently I do not.

>> No.2435501

>>2435388
Fuck you!

>>2433316
And fuck you too, don't bring that camera whore around here.

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Fermat, for trolling everybody for 300 years

"I have a beautiful proof to this problem, but it won't fit in the margin."

>> No.2435511

Favourite scientist: Mendeleev. My beautiful periodic table.

Favourite mathematician (or set theorist): Bertrand Russell. Also active in philosophy.

>> No.2435525

Carl Sagan
Richard Feynman
Nicholas Steno