Top 5 greatest mathematicians of all time

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Reply 20

SimonM

You're not including Gauss Dayo?

Reply 21

alexmahone

1. Newton
2. Newton
3. Newton
4. Newton
5. Newton

in no particular order. :biggrin:

Reply 22

yusufu

DFranklin;
generalebriety;
Chewwy;
James;
Kolya.

Also in no particular order.

:ninja:

Reply 23

Dadeyemi

yusufu

DFranklin;
generalebriety;
Chewwy;
James;
Kolya.

Also in no particular order.

:ninja:

Correction:

1.Dadeyemi;
a.generalebriety;
b.Chewwy;
c.James;
d.Kolya.

where {a,b,c,d} is some permutation of {2,3,4,5}

:yep:

Reply 24

yusufu

Dadeyemi

Correction:

1.Dadeyemi;
a.generalebriety;
b.Chewwy;
c.James;
d.Kolya.

where {a,b,c,d} is some permutation of {2,3,4,5}

:yep:

lol. I was going to put myself in the list, but I realised that I transcend greatness. Oh yes.

Reply 25

Cexy

Holy thread revival Batman.

Edit: in other news, I would probably swap 2. and 3. in my list. Maybe swap 4. and 5. as well.

Reply 26

Kyalimers

Einstein, Galileo, Newton, Euler, Gauss - no particular order.

Here come the shouts about he's a physicist, not a mathematician.

Spoiler

Reply 27

XShmalX

Pythagoras
Newton
Euler
Achemides
Fermat
Euclid
(No order)

Reply 28

silent ninja

I know nothing of past mathematicians to have any sort of informed opinion, but Ramanujan's story is fascinating. Died so young too.

I am amazed how many of these guys are virtually self-taught.

Reply 29

SimonM

Not as young as Galois...

Reply 30

k8ht67`

euler
gauss
hilbert
riemann
leibniz

no particular order

Reply 31

Simplicity

Grothendieck
Riemann
Gauss
Godel
Galois

Reply 32

DeanK2

1.) Simplicity
2.) Simplicity
3.) Simplicity
4.) Simplicity
5.) Simplicity

Reply 33

Simplicity

1.) Simplicity
2.) Simplicity
3.) Simplicity
4.) Simplicity
5.) Simplicity

1000000000000000000000001)DeanK2

P.S. Newton is not a mathematician, nor is Einstein.

Reply 34

coldfusion

Simplicity

1000000000000000000000001)DeanK2

P.S. Newton is not a mathematician, nor is Einstein.

Didn't Newton study maths at cambridge? Everyone had to at that time but that's beside the point.

Reply 35

Simplicity

Didn't Newton study maths at cambridge? Everyone had to at that time but that's beside the point.

No, he did philosophy. Cambridge is pretty crappy for maths during the time of Newton. Its only till Hardy came along did they start actually doing Maths and not Physics.

Reply 36

wanderlust.xx

XShmalX

Pythagoras
Newton
Euler
Achemides
Fermat
Euclid
(No order)

Someone obviously can't count.

Reply 37

FreemanG

1) Gauss
2) Euler
3) Cantor
4) Riemann
5) Grothendieck

woo first person to choose Cantor

Reply 38

maths-enthusiast

This isnt' the best place to discuss such questions, I don't even know if there is such a place.

5 is too low a number to depict all the great achievements by mathematicians throughout history. This seems to be a list very biased towards the Western reader, who may have been brought up to think only the Western world can produce 'great mathematicians'.

From era of Euclid to generation of Gauss, there is a huge gap of more than a millennium. Which is left empty in these discussions.

5 is too low a number to fairly depict all the subfields within mathematics today.