who was the best mathematician in theworld?

Answer 1

1. Gauss
2. Archimedes
3. Euler
4. Riemann
5. DesCartes

Honorable Mentions: Leibnitz, Gödel, Pythagoras, Hilbert, Weierstrass, Pascal

Answer 2

Mathematicians often say that Gauss, Newton, and Archimedes are all at the top and cannot be distinguished by mortals.

Euler was a master of algebraic manipulation and put out a lot of volume, and would probably come next. Fibonacci did a great job popularizing mathematics in the middle ages, but was nowhere near the top. The Pythagoreans attributed everything to Pythagoras so it would be hard to judge his contributions, although he was certainly one of the first. Historians have recently discovered a dated copy of the Principia belonging to Leibniz proving that he presented Newton's work as his own. Descartes and Fermat introduced analytic geometry but were unable to put it together with the work of Archimedes to obtain Newton's calculus. Riemann would have gone nowhere without his advisor Gauss. Gödel's Incompleteness theorem is amazing and certainly of paramount interest to philosophers, but he didn't have as much breadth as the top three. Hilbert had tremendous breadth and was an inspiration for many, but didn't have the star power of the top three. Pascal's Triangle was known as "Yang Hui's Triangle" long before Pascal.

Some others worth mentioning include Ramanujan, Poincare, and Cantor.

Answer 3

I am. Oh wait, you used the past tense.
Hard to say. So far, nobody has topped whoever engineered the Great Pyramid of Giza. I have my favorites - Newton and Minkowski. Maybe Feinman . Wheeler isn't bad....he coauthored "Gravitation" which includes some tedious topology. Then there were the enslaved Jewish mathematicians who were forced to prove unsolvable integrals for Nazi Germany. They saved us time we'd still be wasting today. Of course, there is the source of mathematics - whoever created the universe. That brings us full circle back to "I am". (not me)

Answer 4

His name was G A O T U.

He computed and engineered not only the world but also the entire universe.

G A O T U is short for "Great Architect of the Universe."

Answer 5

Gauss is widely considered the best mathematician. He was better at math when he was 3 than most of us will ever be.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Gauss

Answer 8

Perhaps Euler, but it could be Arquinedes, Pithagoras, Gauss, Newton...

Too many excellent mathematitians...

Ana

Answer 9

I vote for Euler. He pioneered so many different mathematical fields - graph theory, complex numbers, numerical analysis. And imagine that he was blind! Wouldn't it be quite difficult to develop mathematical formulas without being able to see them on paper?

Answer 10

Hawking.