2006-12-02 14:10:13 · 15 answers · asked by lil_slim_305 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
Ian Malcolm. Mathematician and chaos theory expert. His thoughts and theories were used greatly by Michael Crichton in writing Jurassic Park and The Lost World. Crichton made Malcolm's theories easy for us layman to understand.
2006-12-02 14:22:14 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hermann Minkowski!
Minkowski taught at the universities of Bonn, Göttingen, Königsberg and Zurich. At the Federal Polytechnic Institute, today the ETH Zurich, he was one of Einstein's teachers.
Minkowski explored the arithmetic of quadratic forms, especially concerning n variables, and his research into that topic led him to consider certain geometric properties in a space of n dimensions. In 1896, he presented his geometry of numbers, a geometrical method that solved problems in number theory.
In 1902, he joined the Mathematics Department of Göttingen and became one of the close colleagues of David Hilbert, whom he first met in Koenigsberg. Constantin Carathéodory was one of his students there.
By 1907 Minkowski realised that the special theory of relativity, introduced by Einstein in 1905 and based on previous work of Lorentz and Poincaré, could be best understood in a four dimensional space, since known as "Minkowski space", in which the time and space are not separated entities but intermingled in a four dimensional space-time, and in which the Lorentz geometry of special relativity can be nicely represented. This nice representation certainly helped Einstein's quest for general relativity.
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2006-12-02 22:14:07 · answer #2 · answered by "automat" 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Henri Poincaire, the last "universalist", who was an expert in all branches of mathematics in his day, who even prestaged Einstein's Special Relativity. If he is not famous, he deserves to be.
2006-12-02 22:15:40 · answer #3 · answered by Scythian1950 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Rene Descarte
2006-12-02 22:16:31 · answer #4 · answered by AibohphobiA 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
John Forbes Nash and John Venn
2006-12-02 22:13:36 · answer #5 · answered by Priya 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Isaac Newton
2006-12-02 22:12:44 · answer #6 · answered by Amy F 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
John von Neumann
2006-12-02 22:26:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Albert Einstein
2006-12-02 22:12:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Pythagoras
2006-12-02 22:18:29 · answer #9 · answered by Didgeridude 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Here are some from my Partial Differential Equation's book:
Isaac Newton
Leibnitz
Lebesgue
Fourier
Euler
Wilbraham-Gibbs
Parseval
Bessel
Riemann
Bernoulli
Dirichlet
Abel
Cauchy
Laplace
Poisson
D'Alembert
Helmholtz
Neumann
Robin
Legendre
Chebyshev
Laguerre
Hermite
Sturm
Liouville (yes it is NOT Louiville)
Gauss
Duhamel
Hankel
Plancherel
Green
Lie
Wronski
Cauchy
Jordan
Hilbert
Taylor
McLaurin
Frobenius
Gram
Schmidt
Zorn
Hamel
Schauder
Hadamard
That should be enough!
2006-12-02 23:19:45 · answer #10 · answered by The Prince 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋