Favorite Mathematician / Scientist - President Obama YouTube Interview 2011

President Obama answers the question "Who is your favorite mathematician or scientist?" in his first post-State of the Union interview.

This clip is from the citizen-powered interview of President Obama, streamed live on YouTube on Thursday January 27th, 2011. The full interview can be seen at www.youtube.com/AskObama.

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[WR3STL3]

in other words he doesnt know shit about any mathmatics or scienctists

[erikmartin2]

So his favorite mathematician is a biologist he met once. He may be as ignorant as Palin, but he's much better at faking it.

[mroldschoolhiphop1]

i like to see how bush would answer it.

[EinsteinxtremeRoblox]

@WR3STL3 What do you expect from a politician?

[WHOWHAT1984]

Eric Lander is a mathematician turned biologist.

At the age of 17 he wrote a paper on quasi perfect numbers and won the Westinghouse Prize. He was valedictorian of his class at Princeton (his major was Mathematics) and went on to Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar where he got his PhD in Mathematics. All before he was 30. Pretty smart guy...

[dmh091]

@erikmartin2

Actually you are one as ignorant as Palin here.  Genetics produces some of the best mathematicians.

[schweizenboxenschaft]

@b00n707 either way, nobody would've of known who the fuck he was talking about; he could have said newton, and people would have probably thought he was talking about the guy who invented those delicious fig pastries.

Personally, I would have gone with the bad boy of riemannian geometry, grigori perleman, but what the hell do I know

[b00n707]

@schweizenboxenschaft but wouldn't it be cooler to name someone not that well known? E.g: Saunders Mac Lane, Mittag Leffler, Kolmogorov, Poincare, Legendre, Hardy, Hamilton, Grothendieck, Euklid, Brouwer, Schauder, Eisenstein, Abel, Cauchy, Jac. Bernoulli, Joh. Bernoulli, Klein, Schwarz, Kronecker, ... the list of possible candidates is huge

[ThatMiserableCat]

@mocalsa Obama doesn't know any mathematicians. He does not know anything except "YES I CAN".

Had our Smartt Collidge Edurcatid Prisidant Obama paid attention to his math teachers in class, he would know that when you have Three Apples but you give Four Apples away, you not only don't have any apples left, but you owe one now, as well. 1st Grader stuff.

>> 1st Grade Teacher to Obama: "Now, Barry, put on the funny hat and go sit in the corner".

[mocalsa]

@DerSchnurrbart  I Bet it's not Katy Curic

[mocalsa]

....favorite ' mathematician'.....R U SHITING ME....!? The world is falling apart and our president answers this 'idiotic' question ! ! ! What does that tell you dipshits that voted for the jerk ! ?