The worlds greatest mathematicians - A Beautiful Mind Theme

[barneyronnie]

I'm missing?!!!!

[greendarksky]

Gauss is the emperor of the invisible empire .

[MrDevilstreaker]

I love it how people comment and say "HEY! where is my favourite mathematician?" Who gives a toss - there are hundreds - just relax and enjoy

[TheMaxTobias]

Where's Alan Turing?!

[TheTrancemaster90]

You forget Peano and Volterra! However cool vid!

[sivko23]

Tesla is smarter then all of them

[indurnuguri1]

In my view, Srinivasa Ramanujan was the greatest natural talent in mathematics. No one in the history of mathematics could ever come close to him in natural talent. This guy was absolute Genius. He was special.

With regards to contributions to mathematics, I would rate Newton, Euler, Leibniz, Gauss highly.

[R2242V]

Leibniz! :)

[TropicalLove07]

Where's Ramanujan?

[HiddenDataFilms]

Lol what about Archimedes? Or people from India (since that's where Alegbra was invented)

[TheBeardedThinker]

descartes was as a badass philosopher as he was a mathematician

[joppadoni]

if you have a favourite mathematician you need to get more air

[Abo0Alreem]

nice ,  but you forget Omar Al-Khayyám , Unfortunately , =)

[EgoSumIndigentia]

I would have put Carl Friedrich Gauss and Leonhard Euler WAY higher; and Pythagoras wouldn't have even been on my list. And where is Euclid?? Ah, wells... -.- .

[ivankaramasov]

@EgoSumIndigentia Surely, you understand that it is in chronological order and not based on the value of their contribution?

[EgoSumIndigentia]

@ivankaramasov Ahhh, you should have mentioned that somewhere!... My apologies!

[Jipzorowns]

awh just amazing this song :)

[advantagerealty]

Grigory Perelman is a must. Although he is teaching us not to care about that.

[sekwah09]

What about John Nash for his contribution in Game Theory?

[sekwah09]

What about John Nash for his contribution in Game Theory?

[itstheChampion88]

I strongly disagree with having Pythagoras at the top he's just an overrated media figure

The best mathematicians are Archimedes, Gauss, Newton, Euler, Ramanujan, Neumann, Jacobi, Hilbert, Poincare, Reimann, Leibiniz, Grothendieck, and Abel in no particular order

But the best in terms of innate ability are Euler, Ramanujan, Gauss, Jacobi, and Von Neumann

[navtiger007]

@itstheChampion88 I agree to most but I would say both Archimedes & Gauss collectively, should be at the number 1 position.

[itstheChampion88]

@navtiger007 I think Archimedes is kind of overrated and Euler also deserves a #1 spot

The most underrated mathematicians are Newton, John von Neumann, and Jacobi

[navtiger007]

@itstheChampion88 Why do you think Archimedes is overrated? It can be argued that seeds of Limits & ultimately Calculus were sown by him. Others just contemplated more on it later & formalised it. This too started around 2000 years later. In Mathematics due credit is given to those too who are first to see the patterns.

[itstheChampion88]

@navtiger007 well he's overrated because what he did was in ancient times

Lots of people did Calculus independently of knowing of Archimedes like Bhāskara

[TheEnoughisEnough]

Could have been interesting if I knew who the fuck they all were. Why not put their names and their ahievements? You have had a few 1000 hits and only 7 people can name all the faces .... a waste.

[paulojunior201]

NO NAMES? LOL YOU SUCK.

[Kortatu123]

el magico gauss!

[navtiger007]

And Ramanujan should always be mentioned as "Ramanujan & Hardy OR Hardy & Ramanujan"...

[itstheChampion88]

@navtiger007 what? why should Hardy be mentioned for when Ramanujan independently thought up all of his contributions with his amazing innate ability? That's like saying for Gauss you should mention all the people who made it possible for him to be a mathematician

[navtiger007]

@itstheChampion88 yep, you may be right, but still I am confused about this, maybe after I can decide only after do an extensive studies of their collective and individual works. My apologies for being so vague...

[navtiger007]

I think you missed Archimedes, He should be in No 1 position...

[chillichomper]

You should have listed their names as well as their most important theorem as you showed their image. I am an engineer and I barely recognized 1/2 of these guys. Redo it and it will be awesome.

[delaisla777]

@chillichomper same here...and i agree

[JhonVonnNeumann]

Don't know... gauss was a monster in mathematical talent too

[bansheebazouk]

And BTW Poincare must be in any top ten list too.

[bansheebazouk]

I think this list must include people who influenced deeply many branches of methematics. Wiles does not qualify. Archimedes, John von Neumann, Andrey Kolmogorov do.

[okunevsky]

Well very important names are missing incluidng Kolmogorov, Von Neuman, Grothendieck, Abel not not mention such fundumental figures as Euclid or Archimedes.

[rand2]

@okunevsky

von neumann is on the list.

[260191894]

I love the song! Perfect!

[Thymonico]

That list will be rendered obsolete in a couple of years! You all just await my contributions to mathematics! :D

[camilus23]

my list:

1. Newton

2. Gauss

3. Riemann

4. Euler

5. Ramanujan

[camilus23]

my list:

1. Newton

2. Gauss

3. Riemann

4. Euler

5. Ramanujan

[Muuzip99]

Ramanujam, no doubt, is the best... he was not human, he was avatar of God.

[el0sidewinder]

Ramanujam = 16th if you consider the total contribution he made to mathematics

1st by far if you consider the raw mathematical talent he possesed

[stanh1979]

Rmanujan was the best, he worked on mathematics developing his own ideas without any help and without any real idea of the then current research topics other than that provided by Carr's book

[DavidAlanRogers]

Bernoulli and Galois ahead of Gauss? No way!

Gauss should be pretty close to number 1. And as a Mathematician, I would definitely rate Leibniz higher than Newton.

Riemann is also a little low on the list...

[nickharvey7]

Nice oil painting and old photos here!!

[edcard29]

Which Bernoulli?

[rand2]

Jakob I. Bernoulli

[Raminber]

Great. thank you man

[Raminber]

Who's Johnny?

[ienjoyapples]

what is wiles doing on there when you could have poincare, archimedes, hell anybody! if you want a contemporary pick tao.

[Raminber]

Wiles and Tao are both brilliant

[gremlinextreme101]

archimedes is top of most lists of mathematicians i've met, i'd go with Euler though, he improved and developed like everything in mathematics, i'm having difficulty finding pages on number theory that don't mention him.

[nithinchinta]

my friend you forgot one more greatest person in Mathamatics, he is the Master of Masters: ARYABATTA

[druffzy]

very true!

[Arlekean]

What about Euclid, Archimedes, Jacobi, Lagrange, Laplace, D'Alembert, Abel, just to mention a few?

[MrSigma]

Where is Lagrange and Euclid? Pythagoras and Wiles are definitely not in the same league as the rest. Its very tough to rank these guys. May be the only way to rank them is by the longevity of their lives!

Can someone do that for me?

[Capablanca89]

Gauss at tenth place is a shame and where is Arkimedes? Pythagoras wouldn't even been on my list.

[rand2]

this is a chronicle numeration ;)

[sekwah09]

@Capablanca89

Ah yes, I remember the days of studying Gauss's Divergence Theorem in Vector calculus

[GAMEOFTAG]

that statement is based on EXISTING architecture and governed by the indentured servant clause also globalized ... already done .... just like that... Apprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of practitioners of a skill. Apprentices (or in early modern usage "prentices") or protégés build their careers from apprenticeships.

[GAMEOFTAG]

first five should be in a binary tree to include Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer ... that is formalism .... start from anyone & branch intuitively & you will end at the law of excluded middle (conjecture) Hilbert's 18th pbm, age of consent, nand or consensus) ... architecture for the Green Economy . 4th pbm: Construct all metrics where lines are geodesics. I am sure you have heard this "do more with less" 8th pbm: (the real part of any non-trivial zero of the Riemann zeta function is ½)

[supermodular]

I disagree on Wiles too. Not in the same

league. Big names are missing:

J. L. Lagrange is definitely on my top list.

Also: David Hilbert, Andrey Kolmogorov,

J. Henri Poincaré, Alan Turing, Norbert Wiener.

[rand2]

Hilbert is in the List

[maxmuller100]

Why do you think Pythagoras is the greatest mathematician that has ever lived? Don't you think mathematical heros such as Newton and Leibniz, who both developed, amongst many other things, infinitesimal calculus, were certainly of greater genius than a man who only thought of an exceptional case of the cosine-rule and some music theory?

[DasColdmirrorDelikt]

Ich denke Gauß war der genialste von allen (aber das kann jeder sehen, wie er will)!

[bobby4500]

Srinivasa Ramanujan ist mein held ;-)

[lolo241080]

Da hast du ja einige vergessen: Lagrange, Laplace, Jacobi und viele mehr, aber die sind die einigen mit denen ich am meisten zu tun habe, abgesehen die jenigen die du erwähnt hast.

[rand2]

joa, klar gibt es noch einige sehr wichtige mathematiker die nicht in der Liste sind, aber irgenwo muss man das ganze ja auch eingrenzen ;)

[kenny82988]

Nice list, but I have to disagree with Wiles, not that he isn't great, but the other 18 are in a league above him.

[rand2]

hmm, you may be right, anyway thanks for your comment!