Greatest Mathematician

[Truthy]

Leaning Euler, but probably because I'm more familiar with his work. I'm also under the impression he was better as a professional mathematician, as a lot of Gauss' stuff was published posthumously.

 

[Perfection]

Who was that guy who proved Triangles have three sides?

 

[Birdjaguar]

Who was that guy who proved Triangles have three sides?

Rick Blaine along with Ilsa Lund and Victor Lazlo.

 

[mrt144]

Ramanujan deserves to be up there IMO.

came here just for this.

 

[onejayhawk]

came here just for this.

Referencing Ramanujan, I bumped the 0.999... =/= 1 thread. I would like to know what if anything he ever said on the subject.

In passing I note that series convergence in not equality. It is simply an authorized substitution.

For this thread, either Guass or Euler. There are few things in history more influential than the discovery of natural logs. They didn't name stuff after Gauss, because there would be too many.

J

 

[Formaldehyde]

Eddie Cantor was brilliant. Wait, what?

I'm going to go with John von Neuman, the father of the architecture of the computer, just because he seems to have been left out.

 

[onejayhawk]

Eddie Cantor was brilliant. Wait, what?

I'm going to go with John von Neuman, the father of the architecture of the computer, just because he seems to have been left out.

Cantor had finesse, but he was known for squeezing everything possible out of a combination.

J