really great mathematicians whom you like?

Question

and why?

would you mind giving a short biography

Answer 1

Galois because of his contribution to algebra at young age and the dramatic ending of his life.

Galois died in a duel. The night before the duel he wrote down his theory on 30 papers. Because he didnt have much time he couldnt write down all the proofs, thus he wrote i can prove but I dont have the time. His theorie was the basis of modern algebra . He died in the duel.

Answer 2

G. H. Hardy- Because he believed that none of the work he was doing would ever be used in war, sadly he was wrong and today number theory is being used in cryptography.
Euler- when going blind he just thought of it as less distractions
Pierre de Fermat- The Last Theorem!!
There are too many others who I think were great mathematicians and even better people

Answer 3

Hypatia... the first woman math teacher of consequence. http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Hypatia.html
A personal hero of mine, though not well-known except for her death.

Archimedes helped define π (to be between 3 1/7 and 3 10/71), invented a place-value number system and a form of scientific notation (in the Sand-Reckoner problem), performed feats of integral calculus before 1000 years before algebra was invented (finding areas under parabolas and volumes of paraboloids above any secant line or plane... and in the process solved the first infinite sum problem), discovered formula for the area of a circle (π was already known to be the ratio of the circumference to the diameter... Archimedes was the first to prove it's also the ratio of the area of a circle to the square of its radius), discovered formulas for the surface area and volume of spheres, cylinders, and cones (the proof of which he was most proud... his epitaph was a diagram of it), and developed the notion of a plane or solid's center of gravity (calculating where they existed in triangles, paraboloids, and hemispheres). Those who say he didn't invent the catapult at least admit he drastically improved their accuracy and range. Invented the fields in physics known as statics and hydrodynamics. Invented machines that could lift the largest boats of his time out of the sea. Dabbled in astronomy, acted as consul to the king, and defended Syracuse with his machines to keep the Roman army at bay (by land and by sea) for four years before spies used treachery to enter the city.

The only other mathematicians since that can possibly be said in the same breath with Archimedes in comparison of greatness were Gauss and Euler.

Answer 4

Pythagoras - invented Pythagorean theorem

Euclid - created most of modern geometry.

Fermat - has lots of unproved theorems out there.

Leibenz - worked a lot with partial differential equations.

Answer 5

Achimedes

Answer 6

Eratosthenes, for realizing that the Earth was round (and calculating the circumference quite accurately) about five thousand years ago.

Answer 7

Newton. Invented calculus. Strong multidisciplinarian. Christian.

Answer 8

Mr. EINSTEIN !!!!

Well, I dont know if he is a mathenatician or a physician...

I like his hair!!

and the qoute "Imagination is more important than knowlegde"




:):)

Answer 9

ramanujam becoz he dont like to establish anythingbut he want to make a new one.
&euler is find sum of the denominator of n number of thing is to be one

Answer 10

paul erdos.

the first one who figured out what mathematics was all about - fun and coffee :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s