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of all time and what is their accomplishment or accomplishments?

>> No.8271493

Gauss

accomplishments= pretty much everything in 19th century mathematics

>> No.8271494

>>8271485
I really like Grothendieck from a personality perspective. I don't know math well enough to have a grasp on his accomplishments, but his 'relative' point of view is incredibly interesting.

The guy who's math I find most interesting is Chern I guess, I think geometry is cool as fuck.

>> No.8271728

>>8271494
best mathematician of the 20th century

>> No.8271753

>>8271494
Grothendieck was came up with weirdest things that ended up being exactly what we needed.

>Lets define our geometry in terms of spaces with points corresponding to prime ideals of rings.

>Lets define the fundamental group through some convoluted projective limit of the automorphism group of some galois cover

>Lets define a topology on an entire category instead of on individual sets

>> No.8271836

Newton. he invented calculus

>> No.8271861

neil degrasse tyson and if you disagree you're a bigot

>> No.8271865

Euler, it's the meme choice but it's true.

That mother fucker worked like a dog. Also rumor has it he has so many things named after him we stopped naming shit after him to avoid confusion and gave the honors to secondary discoverers.

Source and reasoning why he's badass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Leonhard_Euler

>> No.8271870

>>8271836
*Leibniz

>> No.8271873

>>8271870
*Oresme

>> No.8271875

>>8271485

chief keef sosa

not sammy sosa

sammy sosa is white, chief keef is black

>> No.8271883

>>8271873
Oresme might of had calculus concepts....but no where near the formalization that Newton and Leibniz had

heck calculus concepts go back to Archimedes

>> No.8271887

>>8271485
Lagrange
>method of Lagrange multipliers
>Lagrange's theorem
>variation of parameters
>qt 3.14 loli gf
What's not to love?

>> No.8271891

>>8271485
Erdos motherfucker. The guy had so many brilliant ideas in his head he had to do speed to have the energy to pump them all out.

>> No.8271900

Hilbert, he was a genius

>> No.8271918

Oiler

>> No.8271929

>>8271485
Mandelbrot
I'm not a huge math person but fractals are cool

>> No.8271937

>>8271485
Gödel.

His incompleteness theorem is art.

>> No.8271940

>>8271493
First response best response

>> No.8271998

>>8271485
Laplace. He made differential equations bearable.

>> No.8272009

>>8271753
>convoluted
That moment when you have to use Google to figure out whether anon was using a math term or the normal English word. Reminded me of the "convolution" of two functions, and mathematicians are notorious for reusing terminology.

>> No.8272023

gauB

>> No.8272031

>>8271883
*Eudoxus

>> No.8272124

Cantor is my waifu.

>> No.8273034

Lawvere: "concentrate the essence of practice and in turn use the result to guide practice"

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>>8271485
>tfw you fell for the Sagan meme as a kid

>> No.8273091

>>8273076
>mathematician

>> No.8273997

>>8271485
I like Erdos because of his obtuse lifestyle and total devotion to mathematics. In reality I might have to go with Riemann because of Riemann surfaces and because he was the one person Gauss seemed to respect.

>> No.8274064

>>8271485
Hamilton
[math] \frac{\partial \mathcal{S}} {\partial q} = 0 [/math]
[math] \mathbf{v}_B = \mathrm{q} \mathbf{v}_A \mathbf{q}^{-1} [/math]

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8274317

Galois, his life is a fucking meme

>> No.8274895

>>8272023
alt gr + s = ß

>> No.8274897

>>8274317
>audrey hepburn face

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>>8274317
>tfw you remember mathematics would be about two centuries more advanced if he had lived

>> No.8276235

>>8271485
Shinichi memezuki

>> No.8276803

Cantor sort of memed on everyone with infinite sets and I appreciate that