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The idea of who is/are the greatest mathematician(s) is relative and subjective to the person you ask, so there's no definite answer for this one. You can ask who had the greatest impact in history, but that itself is subjective aswell since all of them impacted society and humanity in different ways, and different people will value different deeds more than others will.
If you ask who was the greatest in terms of intelligence, that will become impossible to even start to judge, because their ways of thinking are completely different, the way they reach for answers and use logic aswell. So, each is very intelligent in their own way, and it's very difficult to compare.
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@Nabokov Ohhh! Betrand Russell!! right ^_^ Yeah , he was a nice one and a good philosopher aswell , But the others are sort of ....Physicists? mostly..
Of course i agree with you john, i Wanted to compare them by the things they did and Found ... That we use Today , I think those 3 i mentioned Are very important , maybe without them we wouldnt have the same Knowledge that we do now in Maths.
sometimes we put up walls , not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to knock them down.
@Nabokov Ohhh! Betrand Russell!! right ^_^ Yeah , he was a nice one and a good philosopher aswell , But the others are sort of ....Physicists? mostly..
If Mathematics is a language, then Physics is the Shakespeare.
If Mathematics is a language, then Physics is the Shakespeare.
Amen!
Richard Feynman is probably my favourite theoretical physicist ever, although not for his mathematics! Just his general insight into basically everything haha. This video, for example, I absolutely love... "magnets and 'why' questions":
Euler, Newton, Pythagoras... all great, historical mathematicians. Have lots of respect for the more modern Heisenberg, too, for his realisation that the issue of atomic orbitals could be solved by introducing non-commutative multiplication - in this case matrices in the formation of matrix mechanics. Honestly, though, I'd have no idea where to start in describing the greatest mathematician!
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