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From: riderofgiraffes on 4 Mar 2010 19:22
An iniquitous question, perhaps, but certainly
there are mathematicians still living who are,
for one reason or another, more widely known.
It exposes my background, perhaps, but I would
include Perelman, Wiles, Graham and Conway.

Who would you nominate for your current (or near
current) top 10? Impossible, of course, since
there are now more mathematicians living than
have ever lived before, but it's a different
twist than asking for the greatest ever.

Feel free to include nominations for "greatest
ever" as well:

Euler, Gauss, Eudoxus, Fermat, ...

And of course, Erdos.
From: Larry Hammick on 5 Mar 2010 07:05
"riderofgiraffes"
....
> Feel free to include nominations for "greatest
> ever" as well:
>
> Euler, Gauss, Eudoxus, Fermat, ...
>
> And of course, Erdos.

Ramanujan and Cauchy are big standouts, in my mind anyway.


From: G. A. Edgar on 5 Mar 2010 09:52
In article
<1555798413.321503.1267784581214.JavaMail.root(a)gallium.mathforum.org>,
riderofgiraffes <mathforum.org_am(a)solipsys.co.uk> wrote:

> An iniquitous question, perhaps, but certainly
> there are mathematicians still living who are,
> for one reason or another, more widely known.
> It exposes my background, perhaps, but I would
> include Perelman, Wiles, Graham and Conway.
>
> Who would you nominate for your current (or near
> current) top 10?

If you want other than personal opinion, you could try: the last 10
Fields Medalists...

> Impossible, of course, since
> there are now more mathematicians living than
> have ever lived before, but it's a different
> twist than asking for the greatest ever.
>
> Feel free to include nominations for "greatest
> ever" as well:
>
> Euler, Gauss, Eudoxus, Fermat, ...
>
> And of course, Erdos.

--
G. A. Edgar http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~edgar/
From: master1729 on 6 Mar 2010 08:41
Larry Hammick wrote :

> "riderofgiraffes"
> ...
> > Feel free to include nominations for "greatest
> > ever" as well:
> >
> > Euler, Gauss, Eudoxus, Fermat, ...
> >
> > And of course, Erdos.
>
> Ramanujan and Cauchy are big standouts, in my mind
> anyway.
>
>
>

dead mathematicians who believed in god

1) Cauchy

however it needs to be said :

a) Cauchy-Riemann equations had been previously discovered by d'Alembert.

b) hypothesized that ether had the mechanical properties of an elasticity medium.

= considered today to be cranky ? i guess glird got his ether ideas from Cauchy ? Does elasticity really explain the ' no propulsion question ' i asked recently ?

c) Cauchy's elasticity theory had problems.


Cauchy is rated 3000.


regards

tommy1729
From: Obispo de Tolosa on 8 Mar 2010 13:47
Granville is obviously the greatest living mathematician, and perhaps the only one.

The late Dr. Schramm was great precisely because he did NOT receive a Fields medal.
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