who is your favorite mathematician? what are his/her contributions?

Question

i need your answers. thanks

Answer 1

Aryabhatta.... he invented "0"... without which we would not know maths or physics as it is today... and oh yeah... the computers would not be there without the 0s and 1s.

Answer 2

Galois. Why?

It's easy. When he was 19 he outsmarted all the European mathematicians, and wrote papers that they didn't understand. Pretty cool huh? That's not the best part. As he was trying to explain his concepts to others, he got in trouble with a general (it is rumoured that he may have had relations with the general's wife or daughter). He was forced to duel with the general and stayed up the night before the duel rewriting some of his findings that he felt were the most important. He proceeded to be killed the next day. At the age of 19 he created a field (no pun intended) of mathematics that took me until 21 to start to be able to understand.

Answer 3

I think one of the great and original thinkers in mathematics was Archimedes of Syracuse. While in theoretical mathematics lied his passion Archimedes is known to us more as an engineer than a mathematician. This a list of his engineering work:
1. Archimedes screw a type of the pump is in use still today. (I wonder if he really invent it this device.:) )
2. Work on levers and pulley. (‘Single handedly’ moving a huge ship of burden)
3. Determining impurity in alloys by method buoyancy. (The golden crown)
4. Developing was machines and defenses for the his city of Syracuse that kept Roman army at bay for about a year (and could have kept out for much longer)
5. He even developed an early ‘death’ ray. (Well kind of)
6. Invention of an odometer.
7. and much more .

And finally Archimedes as a mathematician:
1. First to theoretically compute Pi.
2. First to compute the surface area and volume of cylinder and sphere. He considered the computation of the ratios of area and volume of a sphere inscribed by a cylinder his greatest lifetime achievement.
3. Firs attempted to compute the size of our solar system in terms of the number sand particles it can enclose (see Sand Reckoner). Doing that he had to invent his own numeric notation system and methodology.
4. Of course his theoretical work of hydrostatics is well know (besides famous ‘eureka’) .
5. As he worked on Pi and the areas and volumes he used the method of exhaustion. That was integral calculus. That was 1900 years before Newton and Leibnitz!

Answer 4

I hate math. I think all mathematicians are evil creatures.

Answer 5

Euler, because he was a conceited bastard that named a constant after himself. And he gave pi it's name.

Answer 6

issac newton
calculus