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Who is the coolest mathematician of all time and why is it Riemman?

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>> No.6413302
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>Who is the coolest mathematician of all time

>> No.6413328

Difficult tot judge the character of people from 200 years ago.
Neumann was fun. Grothendieck was mad Gödel was crazy.

>> No.6413337

The king.

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>>6413337
Forgot pic

>> No.6414627

bump

>> No.6414634
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Duh

>> No.6414644

>>6414634
>implying he's a mathematician

>> No.6414667

>>6414644
same difference

>> No.6414668

>>6414667
not sure if srs...

>> No.6414669

>>6414667
I'm not even sure what same difference is supposed to mean or of that expression even has a meaning

>> No.6414670

>>6414669
It means you concede you were wrong but that you were close.

>> No.6414672

>>6414670
oh, ok

>> No.6414682
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>Who is the coolest mathematician of all time
If I wouldn't choose the most influential mathematician but the "coolest" I'd pick James Grime. He's very inspirational and loves his subject.

>> No.6414693

>>6414682
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-I6XTVZXww

Seriously?

>> No.6414711

>>6414693
He isn't even in that video, is he?

>> No.6414714 [DELETED] 

>>6414693
They are physicians...What do you expect?

>> No.6414718

>>6414714
don't you mean physicists?

>> No.6414721

>>6414718
Sorry I'm not a native. Got the two words mixed up.

>> No.6415003

Evariste Galois was the coolest mathematician.
He laid the foundations for group theory, which is used in every branch of math beyond calculus.
His life story was pretty cool too, and he died young because he got into a duel. If he had lived longer, he could have developed group theory much further.

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6415010

There is no other answer.

>> No.6415027

>>6415010
I think he invented zero, so the indians can express the value of their civilization.

>> No.6415045

>>6415027
Yes, Ramanujan invented zero.
Also, not even Indian, but you're a fucking idiot if you don't realize they were more advanced than western countries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_inventions_and_discoveries

>> No.6415082

>>6415027
The decimal system we use was invented by Indians. It was stolen by the Arabs, who gave it to dumbass Europeans.
Before the Indian decimal system, Europeans used stupid, inefficient number systems like the Roman numeral system.

>> No.6415083

>>6415082
>stolen

You don't steal things in mathematics, curryman.

Also, notation != base. Egyptians were the first to use base 10.

>> No.6415093

RIEMANN OR DIRICHLET! Both were fucking ebin!!!!!!

>> No.6415253

>>6415027
>>6415083
Confirmed american

>> No.6415569

>>6415010
/thread
Also I remember he died because London had shitty vegetarian food, hahaha.

>> No.6415575

>riemann

basically all he did was do work with integrals (which was done previously done by leibnizs and newton).

He hasnt really contributed anything, Id place Barnett above him.

>> No.6415592

>>6414634
>382x132

are you 12 or just fucking retarded?

>> No.6415607

>>6415592
Can't I be both?

>> No.6415641

>>6415010
This.

Though he sucked at writing formal proofs, reportedly his intuition was so good he didn't need them.

>> No.6415647

>Ptolemy using his own base 60
>Having a sort of zero
That niggah was on point.

It's clearly von Neumann. He was no doubt drowning in pussy, like Ayer in philosophy.

>> No.6415658

>>6415641
Supposedly the came up with the nested radicals solution intuitively:
<span class="math"> x+n+a = \sqrt{ax+(n+a)^2 +x\sqrt{a(x+n)+(n+a)^2+(x+n) \sqrt{\cdots}}} [/spoiler]
What the actual fuck.

>> No.6415685

>>6413328
Von Neumann was a bitch. Grothen was awesome. Do you know he got hit by cops once?

>> No.6415693

>>6415253
Wow, that's an amazing argument, curryman.

Not that I expect more from a retard who thinks that base = notation.

>> No.6415908

>>6415693
Why do you hate indians so much?

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>>6415027

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>> No.6416044

>>6414693
How is this wrong?

>> No.6416102

>>6414669
>what same difference is supposed to mean
it means the person stating it is unclear on the concepts of "same" and "difference", therefore ignorant of Mathematics

>> No.6416190

>>6414682
i completely agree!

>> No.6416192

>>6414693
This is a mathematically correct fact (although they dont present it in a way that holds up rigorously)

>> No.6417899

>>6415911
Hahahaha this post made me very happy

>> No.6417944

>>6417899
I don't get it...

>> No.6417964

>>6417944
Filename.

>> No.6417983
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He was equably resigned to his lectures being sparsely attended because of their extreme technicality. One semester, unexpectedly many students turned up at the first lecture. He looked around the room in surprise and asked “What are you all doing here? I am not Bergson.” For those who were just there for the sake of doing a course and clocking up their attendance he quietly signed off their lecture books straight away, and told them not to worry about coming again. The few die-hards came for the sake of the logic. Leśniewski would enter the lecture room with a briefcase stuffed with papers, root around, find where he had got to and carry on, writing formulas and explaining how they were derived. When Quine visited some of these lectures, he was able to follow them despite knowing no Polish.

>> No.6418135

>>6417983
I like that story.

>> No.6418361

>>6415010

this guy is right. too bad he died young

>> No.6418404

>>6418361
It's a shame. I would have liked to have seen what he could have come up with. He had a different way of seeing math from a lot of mathematicians. Best intuition of all time, probably.