My personal top three mathematicians have been Gauss, Newton and Euler in that order for quite a while now.
I knew that Euler went blind, but what I didn't know until recently was that he did a lot of his work in Mathematics whilst blind.
This has made me change my view. I have a degree in Mathematics, and when I think about how I would have done if I would have been blind, there is no way I could have done it. I probably wouldn't have been able to do O Level Maths blind.
This for me now puts Euler as number one Mathematician of all time.
Anybody know anything interesting about Gauss, Euler or Newton, or any other Mathematician?
All info greatly appreciated.
2006-10-09 20:43:31 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
I would do a google search if I was after biographical information. But I was looking along the lines of interesting information that probably wouldn't be included in a biography. Like for instance e^Pi*i = -1, the e is for Euler.
2006-10-10 07:49:49 · update #1
Most of the people today don't value maths much. And most of it is evident when school children post their homework questions here for others to answer without even trying them once. Maybe the following links will give you the info you are looking for. :-)
Isaac Newton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton
Leonhard Euler http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard_Euler
Carl Friedrich Gauss http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss
2006-10-09 22:38:28 · answer #1 · answered by fsm 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I simply can not imagine that some one with a degree in Math can not have the idea that he can google for the biographies of mathematicians.
2006-10-10 00:27:38 · answer #2 · answered by gjmb1960 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hmm i really appreciate your interest in mathematics... there are lot of scholars who had done great works starting with Thales, Pythogaras they are really great... There are a few indian scholars who had done wonderful work in maths
Brahmagupta first used ZERO without which there won't be any mathematical advancement.
Aryabatta calculated circumference of earth as as 24,835 miles (0.2% error) and Sidereal day as 23 hours 56 minutes and 4.1 seconds which is just 3 seconds larger than real one.
2006-10-10 00:34:22 · answer #3 · answered by ksj_goblin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An apple fell on Newtons Head!
2006-10-09 21:37:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
for what??
2006-10-09 22:00:22 · answer #5 · answered by dexterblueice 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
what?
2006-10-09 21:18:46 · answer #6 · answered by Mohsen 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋