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Who is the greatest mathematician ever?
Defend your opinion!

Pic related.
Why? Motherfucker was born in the middle of India, far away from the center of Math development. Auto-didact. His birthday is now considered the Math Day in India. Compiled, by himself, almost 3900 results. Used to live on the streets and starve(while that happened, he proved a lot of stuff). When Hardy, another great mathematician was asked what was his greatest discovery he replied it was the discovery of Ramujan.

>> No.4758947
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>Ph.D. in Math
>any job I want
>$300k starting

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>> No.4758952

Paul Erdős

After 1971 he also took amphetamines, despite the concern of his friends, one of whom (Ron Graham) bet him $500 that he could not stop taking the drug for a month.

Erdős won the bet, but complained that during his abstinence mathematics had been set back by a month

>> No.4758984

>>4758952
if ones greatness as a mathematician is proportional to ones drug use, id have to say i blow erdos out of the water

>> No.4759006

muthafunking Cantor
just cool results, completely severed math from applications
Gödel is a close second

>> No.4759017

>the middle of India
>far away from the center of Math development

When I think of Math and a place, I instantly think of India.

>> No.4759022

>>4758925
>the discovery of *ramanujan*
correcting because i remember reading about his infinite series. guy was badass.

>> No.4759025

>>4759022
Lol, I am such a loser, I typed the name of my favorite Math God incorrectly.

>> No.4759032

Alexander Grothendieck.

Most people on /sci/ probably don't know who he is or why he's important, but his work moved mathematics research ahead so fucking much.

>> No.4759035

Hmm, It's hard to decide, Euler or Godel or Gauss... Maybe Riemmann...

>> No.4759044

You're fucking retarded if you think you can choose "the greatest" mathematician ever.

>> No.4759058

>>4759044
op said:
>Defend your opinion
>opinion
>OPINION

2/10

>> No.4759085

>>4758925
Kantorovich: So good at math that he didn't get killed by Stalin, Khrushchev, or Brezhnev, even though he had *no clue* about how to delicately maneuver the Siberia-n-deathcamp laden Soviet political minefield.

>> No.4759100

>>4759032
Oh damn. I think my hipster-o-meter just exploded

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>>4759032
> Most people on /sci/ probably don't know who he is or why he's important.

>> No.4760347

newton

he invented differential calculus and physics

he is the greatest because his work was so seminal

that is all

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Set theory. Need I say more?

>> No.4760364

i will go with ramanujan. he was a natural talent. i think his brain needs to be put in a jar more than einstein. he has many stories like one time his friend asks him a question which he had been struggling for quite a time as he was going to bathroom or kitchen and before he comes back, ramanujan figures out how to solve it.

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I knew about mathnigga way before this shitty movie

but Now i draw his face in mirrors.

>> No.4760772

>>4760347
>physics
>invented
Why the fuck am i checking this board again.

>> No.4760833

Math hipsters will answer: Godel or Cantor
Pure math crazies will answer: Erdos or Ramanujan
Applied maths (aka physics) will answer: Newton, Gauss or Euler
Feminists will answer: Noether
French people will answer: Cauchy or Galois
Math students who know nothing about math outside their esoteric area of research will answer: the deceased mathematician whose work they read last

How did I do?

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>> No.4760839

>>4760347
Yeah, he didn't rip ANYONE off.

>> No.4760844

>>4760833

Galois.

Polish here.

>> No.4760848

>>4760833
I'm not French and I'd say Galois.
How old were you when you revolutionised mathematics?

>> No.4760857

>>4760833
>pure maths genius
>applied maths genius

pick two if you're gauss

>> No.4760867

>>4760772
The empirical data is not invented, but mathematical theories in physics are mental constructs.

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>>4760836

>> No.4760874

Euler simply because he parred off his maths teacher when we was like 9

inb4 HURR JUST A STORY

>> No.4760877

>>4760844
>>4760848

I'm assuming you two just finished your algebra 3 or 4 classes so you fit in the last category.

>> No.4760883

>>4760871
10/10

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>>4760871

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>>4760909

>> No.4760944

Indian kids
>hi, don't mind me, just doing work on a three-century old problem, and here's my proof
American kids
>HEY GUISE I JUST FOUND A WAY TO PROVE THE BIG BANG WRONG JUST LIKE JESUS DID BUT IM NOT TELLING YOU YET BECAUSE I HAVENT PUBLISHED IT YET DURR BRB TALKING TO RETARDS AT TED ABOUT EPISTEMOLOGY 101

>> No.4760950

I have a feeling this thread is full of Indian kids.

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you cant even pronounce the complete name of the greatest mathematician ever

>> No.4760960

>>4760836
Why are geniuses so ugly?

>> No.4760956

>>4760940
Look at the border between the fingers at the bottom left of the computer and the image
What you should have done is cut out the computer screen and made it transparent, then put the layer with Ray's face under it, possibly using a perspective tool.

>> No.4760967

>>4760956
I did just that, just not well. Fixing.

>> No.4760968

No math in the middle east? What about the library of Alexandria?

I thought this was /sci/ not /pol/

>> No.4760971

>>4760968
it was burned down momo

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>> No.4761269

Archimedes.

So far ahead of his time, no one could understand his mathematical work. Possibly the designer of the Antikythera mechanism -- something unsurpassed for two millenia after his death.

>> No.4761279

Jacob Barnett because he's 12 and disproved Einstein

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>> No.4761412

pascal

>> No.4761417

Euclid.

>> No.4761665

>>4758925
>middle of India, far away from the center of Math development
NOPE

The basis of modern math developed mainly on india.

>> No.4761672

I cote for the guy who invented 'plus'

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>>4758925
>Implying modern math wasn't developed in the middle of India

That region used to be the center of cultural enlightenment for hundrends of years. Then the religious fundamentalists turned it into shits-ville!

IT IS HAPPENING TO AMERICA NEXT!
Romney 2012! Let america BURN! I want to watch!

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>>4758925
The undisputed champion of maths!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether

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>> No.4761697

Jesus Christ was the greatest mathematician ever.

>> No.4761699

>>4761684

My nigga.jpeg

>> No.4761705

Hilbert. Accept no substitutes. or Gauss

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>>4760960

Wutwasthatbruh?

Fischer and Galois in hurr

>> No.4761718

Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi

Inventor of Algebra

>> No.4761760

who is the cute french one that I pretend is female when I dream?

>> No.4761878

Gauss

da mothafuckin' prince

>> No.4761893

>>4761760

That's Galois.

>>4761711

One on the right.