The very many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXVII

[timtofly]

This is exactly why we just need to annex Canada. So good people like SS-18 ICBM can travel in our glorious country without difficulty.

They should just do their driver's license like we do here in MI. We can drive back and forth through Canada with an enhanced one.

 

[Puck Nutty]

Twitter noob here.

How do you make someone unfollow you? I've got a couple of people following me and spamming me with annoying Tweets. So annoying.

Edit: never mind. Figured it out.

 

[Takhisis]

Just delete your Twitter account.

 

[madviking]

Twitter noob here.

How do you make someone unfollow you? I've got a couple of people following me and spamming me with annoying Tweets. So annoying.

Edit: never mind. Figured it out.

yea, for people who don't know, just block them.

 

[Camikaze]

Isn't there a Commonwealth condition you colonials fulfil? Are Commonwealth countries granted easier passage?

Used to be, but the special treatment was removed a few decades ago when the UK turned to Europe (greatly displeasing many older Australians at the time, and probably accelerating our turn to Asia). A lot of Australians could also get UK passports due to a parental or grandparental link, an avenue which is also no longer as readily available (e.g. my grandfather got a UK passport because his grandfather was born in the UK). Now Australians are treated just like other non-threatening non-Europeans (like Americans, Canadians, Mexicans & Japanese, to name several). Which means the slow queue and a thorough interrogation whenever anyone young tries to enter (they haven't bothered me as much after about the 10th successful entry).

 

[Quackers]

Most brilliant scientist of all time?

 

[Samson]

Most brilliant scientist of all time?

Well, my thoughts went like:

Perhaps Einstein, as he made such fundamental leaps in theory with basicly no resources.
Then I thought what about the Greeks, say Archimedes. They had even less to work with, as Einstein had 2000 or 500 years of science behind him.
And then I thought, probably someone we have never heard of. You need a load of luck to be successful in science, and there will have been more people without luck than with it, so odds are one of those was actually more brilliant than all the successful ones.

 

[Arakhor]

I'd go for Sir Isaac Newton and Niels Bohr, the 'Great Dane' of quantum physics.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Newton had to invent a new form of math, so I'd go with him as well.

 

[Arakhor]

Gottfried Leibnitz may have invented calculus first, but Newton did have various other strings to his bow as well.

 

[Mise]

Gauss, for the sheer number of things he's contributed to science. [wiki]List of things named after Carl Friedrich Gauss[/wiki]

Spoiler :

Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) is the eponym of all of the topics listed below. There are over 100 topics all named after this German mathematician and scientist, all in the fields of mathematics, physics, and astronomy.

Contents

1 Topics including "Gauss"
2 Topics including "Gaussian"
3 Other notable achievements of Gauss
3.1 Gauss's proofs
3.2 Gauss's identities
3.3 Gauss conjectures

Topics including "Gauss"

Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize, a mathematics award
Degaussing, to demagnetize an object
Elliptic Gauss sum, an analog of a Gauss sum
Gauss (unit), a unit of magnetic field (B)
Gauss–Bodenmiller theorem
Gauss–Bolyai–Lobachevsky space, a hyperbolic geometry
Gauss–Bonnet theorem, a theorem about curvature in differential geometry
Gauss–Codazzi equations
Gauss code
Gauss–Hermite quadrature
Gauss–Jacobi quadrature
Gauss–Jordan elimination, a method in linear algebra
Gauss–Kronrod quadrature formula
Gauss–Kuzmin distribution, a discrete probability distribution
Gauss–Kuzmin–Wirsing constant, a constant in number theory
Gauss–Manin connection, a connection on a vector bundle over a family of algebraic varieties
Gauss–Markov process
Gauss–Markov theorem
Gauss–Laplace pyramid, sometimes called the Burt–Adelson pyramid
Gauss's law for gravity
Gauss linking integral (knot theory)
Gauss iterated map (dynamical systems)
Gauss–Krüger coordinate system
Gauss–Seidel method
Gauss–Newton algorithm
Gauss–Newton line
Gauss–Legendre algorithm
Gauss–Lucas theorem
Gauss's area formula
Gauss's principle of least constraint
Gauss's constant, the reciprocal of the AGM of 1 and \scriptstyle\sqrt{2}, in number theory
Gauss's continued fraction, an analytic continued fraction derived from the hypergeometric functions
Gauss's criterion
Gauss's digamma theorem, a theorem about the digamma function
Gauss error function
Gauss' generalization of Wilson's theorem
Gauss gun
Gauss's hypergeometric theorem, an identity on hypergeometric series
Gauss's law, giving the relationship between flux through a closed surface and the enclosed source
Gauss's law for magnetism
Gauss's lemma in relation to polynomials
Gauss's lemma in number theory
Gauss's lemma in Riemannian geometry
Gauss map
Gauss Peninsula, East Greenland
Gauss sum, an exponential sum over Dirichlet characters
Gauss's theorem may refer to the divergence theorem, which is also known as the Ostrogradsky–Gauss theorem
Gauss composition
Generalized Gauss–Bonnet theorem
Gauss pseudospectral method
Gauss Tower
Gauss (ship)
Gaussberg, or Mount Gauss, an extinct volcano in Antarctica
The Gauss expedition, the first German expedition to Antarctica

Topics including "Gaussian"

Additive white Gaussian noise
Gaussian beam
Gaussian binomial coefficient, also called Gaussian polynomial or Gaussian coefficient
Gaussian blur, a technique in image processing
Gaussian bracket
Gaussian copula
Gaussian curvature
Gaussian distribution, also named the normal distribution, a type of probability distribution
Gaussian elimination
Gaussian function related to the Gaussian distribution
Gaussian filter
Gaussian fixed point
Gaussian free field
Gaussian graph
Gaussian gravitational constant
Gaussian grid
Gaussian's modular arithmetic
Gaussian integer
Gaussian integral
Gaussian isoperimetric inequality
Gaussian measure
Gaussian model; see Variogram
Gaussian network model
Gaussian method
Gaussian moat
Gaussian noise
Gaussian optics
Gaussian orbital
Gaussian period
Gaussian polynomial; see Gaussian binomial coefficient
Gaussian prime
Gaussian process
Gaussian quadrature
Gaussian rational
Gaussian smoothing
Gaussian surface
Gaussian year
Inverse Gaussian distribution, also known as the Wald distribution
Gaussian, a computational chemistry software program

Other notable achievements of Gauss
Gauss's proofs

Proofs for conjectured theorems

The quadratic reciprocity law
The fundamental theorem of algebra
Fermat polygonal number theorem for n = 3

proofs for theorems he discovered himself:

Discovered and proved the theorema egregium
Gauss stated and proved the fundamental theorem of normal axonometry
Gauss developed an algorithm for determining the date of Easter.
Gauss discovered Dirichlet's class number formula, a profound result which paved the way for many later deep results.
Gauss was an early pioneer in topology and knot theory, discovering many early results.

Gauss's identities

Gauss multiplication formula may refer to the multiplication theorem
Gauss interpolation formula
Gauss–Kummer series
Gauss formula
Gauss transformation
Gauss's inequality
Gauss theorems (two theorems) about the Euler function
Gauss test

Gauss conjectures

The prime number theorem
Gauss–Kuzmin distribution, the distribution of integers in a continued fraction
Gauss circle problem
Gauss class number problem
Gauss made progress toward proving the Kepler conjecture

If someone could make a script to go through each of the links on these pages to find out who was the best, that would be great:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists_of_things_named_after_mathematicians
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists_of_things_named_after_physicists
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists_of_things_named_after_scientists


EDIT: Euler's got to be up there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Leonhard_Euler

 

[Kennigit]

The more i hear of von neumann the more I like him, as far as setting up the basis for modern sciences

 

[Samson]

Gauss, for the sheer number of things he's contributed to science. [wiki]List of things named after Carl Friedrich Gauss[/wiki]

Spoiler :

Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) is the eponym of all of the topics listed below. There are over 100 topics all named after this German mathematician and scientist, all in the fields of mathematics, physics, and astronomy.

Contents

1 Topics including "Gauss"
2 Topics including "Gaussian"
3 Other notable achievements of Gauss
3.1 Gauss's proofs
3.2 Gauss's identities
3.3 Gauss conjectures

Topics including "Gauss"

Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize, a mathematics award
Degaussing, to demagnetize an object
Elliptic Gauss sum, an analog of a Gauss sum
Gauss (unit), a unit of magnetic field (B)
Gauss–Bodenmiller theorem
Gauss–Bolyai–Lobachevsky space, a hyperbolic geometry
Gauss–Bonnet theorem, a theorem about curvature in differential geometry
Gauss–Codazzi equations
Gauss code
Gauss–Hermite quadrature
Gauss–Jacobi quadrature
Gauss–Jordan elimination, a method in linear algebra
Gauss–Kronrod quadrature formula
Gauss–Kuzmin distribution, a discrete probability distribution
Gauss–Kuzmin–Wirsing constant, a constant in number theory
Gauss–Manin connection, a connection on a vector bundle over a family of algebraic varieties
Gauss–Markov process
Gauss–Markov theorem
Gauss–Laplace pyramid, sometimes called the Burt–Adelson pyramid
Gauss's law for gravity
Gauss linking integral (knot theory)
Gauss iterated map (dynamical systems)
Gauss–Krüger coordinate system
Gauss–Seidel method
Gauss–Newton algorithm
Gauss–Newton line
Gauss–Legendre algorithm
Gauss–Lucas theorem
Gauss's area formula
Gauss's principle of least constraint
Gauss's constant, the reciprocal of the AGM of 1 and \scriptstyle\sqrt{2}, in number theory
Gauss's continued fraction, an analytic continued fraction derived from the hypergeometric functions
Gauss's criterion
Gauss's digamma theorem, a theorem about the digamma function
Gauss error function
Gauss' generalization of Wilson's theorem
Gauss gun
Gauss's hypergeometric theorem, an identity on hypergeometric series
Gauss's law, giving the relationship between flux through a closed surface and the enclosed source
Gauss's law for magnetism
Gauss's lemma in relation to polynomials
Gauss's lemma in number theory
Gauss's lemma in Riemannian geometry
Gauss map
Gauss Peninsula, East Greenland
Gauss sum, an exponential sum over Dirichlet characters
Gauss's theorem may refer to the divergence theorem, which is also known as the Ostrogradsky–Gauss theorem
Gauss composition
Generalized Gauss–Bonnet theorem
Gauss pseudospectral method
Gauss Tower
Gauss (ship)
Gaussberg, or Mount Gauss, an extinct volcano in Antarctica
The Gauss expedition, the first German expedition to Antarctica

Topics including "Gaussian"

Additive white Gaussian noise
Gaussian beam
Gaussian binomial coefficient, also called Gaussian polynomial or Gaussian coefficient
Gaussian blur, a technique in image processing
Gaussian bracket
Gaussian copula
Gaussian curvature
Gaussian distribution, also named the normal distribution, a type of probability distribution
Gaussian elimination
Gaussian function related to the Gaussian distribution
Gaussian filter
Gaussian fixed point
Gaussian free field
Gaussian graph
Gaussian gravitational constant
Gaussian grid
Gaussian's modular arithmetic
Gaussian integer
Gaussian integral
Gaussian isoperimetric inequality
Gaussian measure
Gaussian model; see Variogram
Gaussian network model
Gaussian method
Gaussian moat
Gaussian noise
Gaussian optics
Gaussian orbital
Gaussian period
Gaussian polynomial; see Gaussian binomial coefficient
Gaussian prime
Gaussian process
Gaussian quadrature
Gaussian rational
Gaussian smoothing
Gaussian surface
Gaussian year
Inverse Gaussian distribution, also known as the Wald distribution
Gaussian, a computational chemistry software program

Other notable achievements of Gauss
Gauss's proofs

Proofs for conjectured theorems

The quadratic reciprocity law
The fundamental theorem of algebra
Fermat polygonal number theorem for n = 3

proofs for theorems he discovered himself:

Discovered and proved the theorema egregium
Gauss stated and proved the fundamental theorem of normal axonometry
Gauss developed an algorithm for determining the date of Easter.
Gauss discovered Dirichlet's class number formula, a profound result which paved the way for many later deep results.
Gauss was an early pioneer in topology and knot theory, discovering many early results.

Gauss's identities

Gauss multiplication formula may refer to the multiplication theorem
Gauss interpolation formula
Gauss–Kummer series
Gauss formula
Gauss transformation
Gauss's inequality
Gauss theorems (two theorems) about the Euler function
Gauss test

Gauss conjectures

The prime number theorem
Gauss–Kuzmin distribution, the distribution of integers in a continued fraction
Gauss circle problem
Gauss class number problem
Gauss made progress toward proving the Kepler conjecture

If someone could make a script to go through each of the links on these pages to find out who was the best, that would be great:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists_of_things_named_after_mathematicians
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists_of_things_named_after_physicists
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists_of_things_named_after_scientists


EDIT: Euler's got to be up there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Leonhard_Euler

But how many Gaussian distribution's are worth one calculus, or Euler–Poisson–Darboux equation's go into one pi?

 

[Antilogic]

All I know is that whoever it is, I'm glad those science nerds aren't worth a thread.

 

[madviking]

i'm biased as an engineer, but a lot of the stuff da vinci did was WAY beyond his time (hence, brilliant)

 

[Kozmos]

Turing was pretty swell. Also this guy: Srinivasa Ramanujan

 

[Arakhor]

i'm biased as an engineer, but a lot of the stuff da vinci did was WAY beyond his time (hence, brilliant)

I think of Leonardo as an engineer and artist primarily, though I'm sure he could be viewed as a scientist. Also, if you wouldn't call Ezio Auditore "da Firenze", you shouldn't call Leonardo "da Vinci".

 

[Zack]

i'm biased as an engineer, but a lot of the stuff da vinci did was WAY beyond his time (hence, brilliant)

To be fair, he was the dumbest person on his home planet.

 

[Antilogic]

Heh, Animatronio.

 

[Cutlass]

I think it was likely some of the Greeks. Like Archimedes. Not that they were necessarily that much more brilliant. But rather that what they did, they did with so much less foundation built by others.

We can touch the sky for we are Standing on the shoulders of giants.