you have only 10 options rank them.
Isaac Newton, Stephen Hawking, Euclid, Simpson, Joeseph Fourier, Karl Friedrich Gauss, Archimedes,Albert Einstein, Joseph Louis de Lagrange
sorry almost forgot make it 11
Johannes Kepler,
2006-10-11 16:25:45 · 4 answers · asked by Milton C 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Newton: He invented calc, and revolutionized the way of scientific thinking for the people who came after him. As much as i despise him every 1st hour for inventing calc, it is still worth something
Einstein: Yeah he is right up there, but his work was although just as revolutionary, he revolutionized physics, Newton revolutionized physics and math. Newton is the better math guy.
Johannes Kepler: He was the stoog if you will of Tycho Brach, but when tycho didnt want Kepler's help, he died before he could even do the work. Kepler however did what Tycho couldnt, and so now most people have never even heard of Tycho even though he did much better original work then Kepler. Kepler just crossed the t's and dotted the eyes. This was extremely hard though.
Stephen Hawking: before stephen hawking came around everybody thought the idea of the black hole was a joke. Stephen Hawking did what nobody in his time could, and that was make mathematical sense of a black hole. Not only was he able to do taht, but he did it in such a way where in no time at all the black hole went from science fiction, to reality, and was even proved later to be right.
Archimedes didnt do that much with math as he did with just thought and invention. He goes last.
THe rest of these guys i have never heard of and dont want to look up. Rate them based on other answers.
2006-10-11 16:35:20 · answer #1 · answered by Adam 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't believe they left Leonard Euler off that list.
Anyway, "greatest" is such a subjective term. Newton was certainly one of the most influential. Wrote Principia Mathematica and given credit for inventing calculus. The rest were great scientists, but I don't know enough to rank them by mathematical skills. Einstein was not brilliant at math. Euclid invented Euclidean geometry, the only important geometry until Riemann ... also very influential, but I didn't realize he was a scientist. Fourier, Gauss, Legrange roles were important but lesser.
Simpson? As in Homer?
2006-10-12 04:00:21 · answer #2 · answered by Luis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd put Newton at the top, but I'd rank Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar close behind.
2006-10-11 23:36:45 · answer #3 · answered by injanier 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
John Nash even though he is an economist.
2006-10-11 23:37:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋