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Anonymous Tue Apr 19 10:02:05 2011 No.2913091 [Reply] [Original]

Who is your favorite mathematician and why?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 10:04:05 2011 No.2913093 File: 50 KB, 688x473, Brett Campbell watches Home Improvement.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Lenard YOUler, because I love you OP.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 10:04:05 2011 No.2913092 if i learned calulus could i make a playstation?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 10:05:05 2011 No.2913096 >>2913094 Jacob Hineybandit

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 10:05:05 2011 No.2913097 File: 14 KB, 400x293, Grigori_Perelman.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Grigori Perelman No explanation needed.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 10:05:05 2011 No.2913094 >>2913091 Gundrum Alberbockins

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 10:07:05 2011 No.2913099 f

Anonymous Tue Apr 19 10:08:05 2011 No.2913104
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Von Neumann. The guy single-handedly advanced civilization by creating the von neumann architecture. He also created game theory and a bunch of other cool math ideas. He was the only one at that time who understood Godel's incompleteness theorem. His iq was off the charts, so much that I wouldn't consider him human (think like 6 sigma deviation.)

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 10:09:05 2011 No.2913109 George Green because jesus christ if he can do all that he did without a formal education. Guy taught himself. fuck man

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 10:11:05 2011 No.2913113 Perelman and Grothendieck both refused Field's Medal, whereas they must be the better mathematicians of the world.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 10:13:05 2011 No.2913118 i dont have a favorite mathemagician because im not a fag haha

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 10:15:05 2011 No.2913126 File: 28 KB, 365x389, bill_clinton_biography_2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2913118 >mathemagician

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 10:15:05 2011 No.2913127 File: 57 KB, 500x485, Argument.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 10:15:05 2011 No.2913125 >>2913118 Go die in a fire.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 10:16:05 2011 No.2913130 J. H. Conway...

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 10:19:05 2011 No.2913137 File: 7 KB, 220x248, 220px-Gromov_Mikhail_Leonidovich.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Mikhaïl Gromov

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 10:19:05 2011 No.2913138 jesus

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 10:30:05 2011 No.2913164 Paul Erdos

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 10:47:05 2011 No.2913206 Perelman of modern age Gauss of old age

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 10:48:05 2011 No.2913207 feynman or archimedes

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 10:54:05 2011 No.2913223 I guess Cauchy, as far as I know, he basically invented several disciplines of mathematics.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 11:36:05 2011 No.2913320 File: 61 KB, 200x300, lily-serna.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Lily Serna

>>	pascal pascal !n5Z3VuZapw Tue Apr 19 11:38:05 2011 No.2913323 pascal

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 11:41:05 2011 No.2913330 >>2913097 >>2913113 like any of you perelman fags understand his proof based on what i've actually studied and understood and think is great: gauss and galois

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 11:42:05 2011 No.2913334 Me, because I'm my biggest fan. Gauss is solidly in 2nd place.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 11:43:05 2011 No.2913336 >>2913330 It isn't just about his proof. He is 100% in it for the love of math; turned down a Field's Medal and a million dollars and doesn't give a shit about the spotlight.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 11:47:05 2011 No.2913352 >>2913137 +1. Anyone makes something nice, Gromov takes it and turns it into gold. Also invents gold.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 11:48:05 2011 No.2913356 >>2913336 That's an alpha mathematician for you haha. Wait, Perelman lives with his mother?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 11:49:05 2011 No.2913358 File: 23 KB, 272x304, Grigori_Perelman.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Grisha all the way baby

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 11:49:05 2011 No.2913359 >>2913091 Paul Samuelson was an economist and mathematician. Pretty cool guy.

Anonymous Tue Apr 19 11:51:05 2011 No.2913367

>>2913091

There are really many inspiring mathematicians.

If context is important (what did the mathematician achieve having the background he had at his time), I'd say Gauss or Euler. Nobody developed that many math in their life with that little background.

Maybe some Fermat/Ramanujan if they count as mathematicians (they don't really do in my book).

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 11:51:05 2011 No.2913364 File: 15 KB, 317x281, weird-fat-man-eating-burger (1).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2913359 Too bad he created the efficient market theory which is wrong. >mfw I know no famous modern mathematicians.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 11:52:05 2011 No.2913370 >>2913364 Penrose?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 11:53:05 2011 No.2913375 Hmm, what about Ada Lovelace?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 11:57:05 2011 No.2913383 File: 714 KB, 2670x4101, cutey_Emma_Shes.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Cartan, because I love his stuff. In still alive mathematics...well, I only know a few...maybe Terence Tao, seems like a cool guy whos doesn't afraid of anything.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 11:59:05 2011 No.2913391 >>2913364 >>2913364 it's still up for debate today, it's complicated, i doubt you even understand it's implications and assumptions even though they can be stated very simply

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 11:59:05 2011 No.2913393 File: 6 KB, 280x340, Hilbert.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] David Hilbert runs this place, y'all just live in it

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 12:17:05 2011 No.2913460 >Hilbert runs this place No, this place is run by the inmates.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 12:21:05 2011 No.2913470 >>2913391 Thanks for doubting I understand it right off the bat. I used to believe it though until recently. Pic related, most famous, richest mathematician and also relevant to the EMH debate.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 12:21:05 2011 No.2913479 File: 232 KB, 589x367, Picture 1277.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2913470 Said pic.

>>	sage Tue Apr 19 17:58:05 2011 No.2914701 >>2913479 name?

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