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TOP 15 MATHEMATICIANS OF ALL TIMES. by Zimri(m): 6:01pm On Aug 21, 2020 |
THIS LIST IS ARGUABLE. 1. PYTHAGORAS Greek Mathematician Pythagoras is considered by some to be one of the first great mathematicians. Living around 570 to 495 BC, in modern day Greece, he is known to have founded the Pythagorean cult, who were noted by Aristotle to be one of the first groups to actively study and advance mathematics. He is also commonly credited with the Pythagorean Theorem within trigonometry. However, some sources doubt that is was him who constructed the proof (Some attribute it to his students, or Baudhayana, who lived some 300 years earlier in India). Nonetheless, the effect of such, as with large portions of fundamental mathematics, is commonly felt today, with the theorem playing a large part in modern measurements and technological equipment, as well as being the base of a large portion of other areas and theorems in mathematics. But, unlike most ancient theories, it played a bearing on the development of geometry, as well as opening the door to the study of mathematics as a worthwhile endeavor. Thus, he could be called the founding father of modern mathematics. Source https://10lista.com/greatest-mathematicians-of-all-time/843/ https://www.listsworld.com/15-famous-people-who-made-failure-work-for-them/ https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2010/apr/11/the-10-best-mathematicians 8 Likes
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Re: TOP 15 MATHEMATICIANS OF ALL TIMES. by Zimri(m): 6:01pm On Aug 21, 2020 |
2. LEONHARD EULER Euler is the true king of mathematics, a Swiss mathematician, astronomer, logician, and physicist. At the same time, he is considered as most famous mathematicians and pioneering contributor. Euler was born on 15 April 1707 in Basel, Switzerland. Furthermore, His influential works in several branches of mathematics like topology, graph and analytical number theory, infinitesimal calculus. However, His most famous work is symbol pi which refers to the ratio of a circles circumference to its diameter. 10 Likes
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Re: TOP 15 MATHEMATICIANS OF ALL TIMES. by Zimri(m): 6:01pm On Aug 21, 2020 |
3. CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS great work named Disquisitiones Arithmeticae at just the age of 21 made him ‘Prince of Mathematics.’ He wasn’t a prolific writer. However, this enormous talent was born on 30 April, Brunswick in Germany. The local Duke of Brunswick could recognize this genius and send to Collegium Carolinum, one of the prestigious universities for mathematics. Eventually, He had contributed to the major area of elementary mathematics and physics. Needless to say, he had done some stunning works magnum opus, before he was 24. 6 Likes
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Re: TOP 15 MATHEMATICIANS OF ALL TIMES. by Zimri(m): 6:04pm On Aug 21, 2020 |
4. RENÉ DESCARTES French Philosopher, Physicist and Mathematician Rene Descartes is best known for his ‘Cogito Ergo Sum’ philosophy. Despite this, the Frenchman, who lived 1596 to 1650, made ground breaking contributions to mathematics. Alongside Newton and Leibniz, Descartes helped provide the foundations of modern calculus (which Newton and Leibniz later built upon), which in itself had great bearing on the modern day field. Alongside this, and perhaps more familiar to the reader, is his development of Cartesian Geometry, known to most as the standard graph (Square grid lines, x and y axis, etc.) and its use of algebra to describe the various locations on such. Before this most geometers used plain paper (or another material or surface) to preform their art. Previously, such distances had to be measured literally, or scaled. With the introduction of Cartesian Geometry this changed dramatically, points could now be expressed as points on a graph, and as such, graphs could be drawn to any scale, also these points did not necessarily have to be numbers. The final contribution to the field was his introduction of superscripts within algebra to express powers. And thus, like many others in this list, contributed to the development of modern mathematical notation. 8 Likes
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Re: TOP 15 MATHEMATICIANS OF ALL TIMES. by Zimri(m): 6:06pm On Aug 21, 2020 |
5. G. F. BERNHARD RIEMANN Bernhard Riemann, born to a poor family in 1826, would rise to become one of the worlds prominent mathematicians in the 19th Century. The list of contributions to geometry are large, and he has a wide range of theorems bearing his name. To name just a few: Riemannian Geometry, Riemannian Surfaces and the Riemann Integral. However, he is perhaps most famous (or infamous) for his legendarily difficult Riemann Hypothesis; an extremely complex problem on the matter of the distributions of prime numbers. Largely ignored for the first 50 years following its appearance, due to few other mathematicians actually understanding his work at the time, it has quickly risen to become one of the greatest open questions in modern science, baffling and confounding even the greatest mathematicians. Although progress has been made, its has been incredibly slow. However, a prize of $1 million has been offered from the Clay Maths Institute for a proof, and one would almost undoubtedly receive a Fields medal if under 40 (The Nobel prize of mathematics). The fallout from such a proof is hypothesized to be large: Major encryption systems are thought to be breakable with such a proof, and all that rely on them would collapse. As well as this, a proof of the hypothesis is expected to use ‘new mathematics’. It would seem that, even in death, Riemann’s work may still pave the way for new contributions to the field, just as he did in life 7 Likes
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Re: TOP 15 MATHEMATICIANS OF ALL TIMES. by Zimri(m): 6:06pm On Aug 21, 2020 |
6. SIR ISAAC NEWTON This famous mathematicians list will be incomplete without mentioning the name of Isaac Newton. Hence, all-round genius Sir Isaac Newton was born on the charismas day, 25 December in Woolsthorpe Manor England. He was an English genius, not just a mathematician but also an astronomer, author, theologian, and physicist. Though he is widely known for his great “Law of universal gravitation,” but he contributed on some major area on mathematics. 9 Likes
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Re: TOP 15 MATHEMATICIANS OF ALL TIMES. by Zimri(m): 6:06pm On Aug 21, 2020 |
7. GIROLAMO CARDANO Italian polymath for whom the term Renaissance man could have been invented. A doctor by profession, he was the author of 131 books. He was also a compulsive gambler. It was this last habit that led him to the first scientific analysis of probability. He realised he could win more on the dicing table if he expressed the likelihood of chance events using numbers. This was a revolutionary idea, and it led to probability theory, which in turn led to the birth of statistics, marketing, the insurance industry and the weather forecast. 9 Likes 2 Shares
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Re: TOP 15 MATHEMATICIANS OF ALL TIMES. by Juliusmomoh: 6:07pm On Aug 21, 2020 |
Very soon my name will include.... 2 Likes |
Re: TOP 15 MATHEMATICIANS OF ALL TIMES. by Zimri(m): 6:07pm On Aug 21, 2020 |
8. PAUL ERDÖS Erdös lived a nomadic, possession-less life, moving from university to university, from colleague's spare room to conference hotel. He rarely published alone, preferring to collaborate – writing about 1,500 papers, with 511 collaborators, making him the second-most prolific mathematician after Euler. As a humorous tribute, an "Erdös number" is given to mathematicians according to their collaborative proximity to him: No 1 for those who have authored papers with him; No 2 for those who have authored with mathematicians with an Erdös No 1, and so on. 4 Likes
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Re: TOP 15 MATHEMATICIANS OF ALL TIMES. by Zimri(m): 6:08pm On Aug 21, 2020 |
9. SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN
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Re: TOP 15 MATHEMATICIANS OF ALL TIMES. by Zimri(m): 6:08pm On Aug 21, 2020 |
10. GRIGORI PERELMAN Perelman was awarded $1m for proving one of the most famous open questions in maths, the Poincaré Conjecture. But the Russian recluse has refused to accept the cash. He had already turned down maths' most prestigious honour, the Fields Medal in 2006. "If the proof is correct then no other recognition is needed," he reportedly said. The Poincaré Conjecture was first stated in 1904 by Henri Poincaré and concerns the behaviour of shapes in three dimensions. Perelman is currently unemployed and lives a frugal life with his mother in St Petersburg. 9 Likes 1 Share
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Re: TOP 15 MATHEMATICIANS OF ALL TIMES. by Zimri(m): 6:11pm On Aug 21, 2020 |
11. FIBONACCI Fibonacci One Of The Middle Ages Top Mathematicians, Born Pisa, Italy. He Is Also Known Leonardo Pisano Blgollo, Leonardo Bonacci Or Leonardo Fibonacci. Fibonacci was The First Person Who Introduced Most Famous Fibonacci Series. However, most of the People don’t know; He Was contributed greatly In the Arabic Numbering System. At the same time, he was the major player who introduced Hindu–Arabic Numeral System to the World. But His Most Famous Work Was Fibonacci Series: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, and 377. 7 Likes
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Re: TOP 15 MATHEMATICIANS OF ALL TIMES. by Zimri(m): 6:11pm On Aug 21, 2020 |
12. GEORGE CANTOR Of all the great mathematicians, Cantor most perfectly fulfils the (Hollywood) stereotype that a genius for maths and mental illness are somehow inextricable. Cantor's most brilliant insight was to develop a way to talk about mathematical infinity. His set theory lead to the counter-intuitive discovery that some infinities were larger than others. The result was mind-blowing. Unfortunately he suffered mental breakdowns and was frequently hospitalised. He also became fixated on proving that the works of Shakespeare were in fact written by Francis Bacon. 7 Likes
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Re: TOP 15 MATHEMATICIANS OF ALL TIMES. by Zimri(m): 6:11pm On Aug 21, 2020 |
13. TERENCE TAO An Australian of Chinese heritage who lives in the US, Tao also won (and accepted) the Fields Medal in 2006. Together with Ben Green, he proved an amazing result about prime numbers – that you can find sequences of primes of any length in which every number in the sequence is a fixed distance apart. For example, the sequence 3, 7, 11 has three primes spaced 4 apart. The sequence 11, 17, 23, 29 has four primes that are 6 apart. While sequences like this of any length exist, no one has found one of more than 25 primes, since the primes by then are more than 18 digits long. 7 Likes
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Re: TOP 15 MATHEMATICIANS OF ALL TIMES. by Zimri(m): 6:14pm On Aug 21, 2020 |
14. EUCLID
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Re: TOP 15 MATHEMATICIANS OF ALL TIMES. by Zimri(m): 6:14pm On Aug 21, 2020 |
15. GOTTFRIED W. LEIBNIZ
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Re: TOP 15 MATHEMATICIANS OF ALL TIMES. by rationalhuman(m): 7:12pm On Aug 21, 2020 |
Aryabhatta? where is he? without him list is not Credible Zimri: |
Re: TOP 15 MATHEMATICIANS OF ALL TIMES. by Zimri(m): 7:16pm On Aug 21, 2020 |
rationalhuman:Infact, there is no credible list anywhere Bro! If we should start listing all those that are suppose to be on this list. I no go comot for nairaland today. A top 100 or top 1000 will cover some yet not all of them 2 Likes |
Re: TOP 15 MATHEMATICIANS OF ALL TIMES. by Zimri(m): 7:20pm On Aug 21, 2020 |
Question of the day. Where are the names of the Mathematics lecturers dem wey dey form god for us for campus? 14 Likes |
Re: TOP 15 MATHEMATICIANS OF ALL TIMES. by danilmo: 7:39pm On Aug 21, 2020 |
How come no single Virgina people is in ur list they are coming for u 3 Likes |
Re: TOP 15 MATHEMATICIANS OF ALL TIMES. by Nobody: 8:03pm On Aug 21, 2020 |
Do physicist next please? I am sure in this modern times there are lots of very good female mathematicians and inventors |
Re: TOP 15 MATHEMATICIANS OF ALL TIMES. by pocohantas(f): 8:04pm On Aug 21, 2020 |
danilmo: Probably learning English, something you should consider- you didn’t make the list either. Virginia kor, Tennessee ni! 10 Likes |
Re: TOP 15 MATHEMATICIANS OF ALL TIMES. by div111(m): 8:07pm On Aug 21, 2020 |
Goood |
Re: TOP 15 MATHEMATICIANS OF ALL TIMES. by Samcent: 8:26pm On Aug 21, 2020 |
Nice compilation, Op. Reading about that Grigori of a man, I am tempted to agree that truly this life no balance... 1 Like |
Re: TOP 15 MATHEMATICIANS OF ALL TIMES. by Zimri(m): 8:28pm On Aug 21, 2020 |
Samcent: And our views about life |
Re: TOP 15 MATHEMATICIANS OF ALL TIMES. by jpawjpaw(m): 8:34pm On Aug 21, 2020 |
what a man can do, a woman can do better. I no see one here oo. 1 Like |
Re: TOP 15 MATHEMATICIANS OF ALL TIMES. by Zimri(m): 8:39pm On Aug 21, 2020 |
16. MARYAM MIRZAKHANI Iranian-born Maryam Mirzakhani was one of the greatest mathematicians of her generation, making exceptional contributions to the study of the dynamics and geometry of mathematical objects called Riemann surfaces. Source https://thirdspacelearning.com/blog/famous-female-mathematicians/ |
Re: TOP 15 MATHEMATICIANS OF ALL TIMES. by Zimri(m): 8:42pm On Aug 21, 2020 |
17. SOFIA KOVALEVSKAYA Russian mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya made monumental contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics. She was a pioneer and icon for females in mathematics and STEM subjects everywhere. 2 Likes
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Re: TOP 15 MATHEMATICIANS OF ALL TIMES. by Epositive(m): 8:45pm On Aug 21, 2020 |
Zimri: cc: Dr Williams This man will never solve difficult questions. He will let you know that it's your problem, not his. 1 Like |
Re: TOP 15 MATHEMATICIANS OF ALL TIMES. by Zimri(m): 8:46pm On Aug 21, 2020 |
Why are people making nairaland toxic with gender biasness and unnecessary tribalism? Imagine people bringing gender into this?☹️☹️ 6 Likes |
Re: TOP 15 MATHEMATICIANS OF ALL TIMES. by Zimri(m): 8:48pm On Aug 21, 2020 |
Epositive:Na so dem dey do... |
Re: TOP 15 MATHEMATICIANS OF ALL TIMES. by Dreamliner787(m): 8:54pm On Aug 21, 2020 |
This list is completely rubbish without Simeon Pierre Laplace and Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier 3 Likes |
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