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Is he the goat mathematician?

>> No.8440685
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8440685

>>8440556
He was alright be he isn't even close to this big guy on the left.

>> No.8440712

>>8440556
is Cauchy and Putin the same guy

>> No.8440991

>>8440556
post yfw you realize that GOAT isn't actually an acronym for Greatest of all time, but is a refrence to the monty haul problem.

>> No.8441013

>>8440991
>tfw it was actually goatse reference

>> No.8441057

>>8440556
>not wildburger

>> No.8441133

>>8440556

Him, Gauss and Euler were the GsOAT.

I can not say who is the greatest among the three.

>> No.8441161

>>8441133
wasn't Cauchy alot more rigorous than Gauss or Euler?

>> No.8441169

>>8441161

I think he was, but I was talking about the maths production. Euler was not very rigorous, but every proof he made can be corrected very quickly, all of them are relevant and good. It's the same for Gauss and Cauchy, the little lack of rigor is not that important.

I would say Gauss was more about algebra and CAuchy about analysis.

>> No.8441182

>>8441161
Than Euler, yes. Most of Gauss' work was more or less sound.

Euler did some wacky shit sometimes because he had correct intuition about results but didn't have the available formalisms (like limits that didn't arise until the 1800s) to write them down in a way that was airtight. It wasn't as though he chose to be less rigorous because he didn't care, it's just a product of being 80-ish years earlier and living in a time of different mathematical standards.

>> No.8441204

>>8440712
came here to post this