greatest African-American mathematician.?
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http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/madhist.html
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Albert Einstein. \n\nHe was very smart, intuitive, and a humanitarian. All of the things we need today.
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Here is the widsom of Dr.King on Affimative Action\n\n"Whenever this issue compensatory treatment is raised, some of our friends recoil in horror. The Negro should be granted equality, they agree, but should ask for nothing more. On the surface, this appears reasonable, but is not realistic. For it is obvious that if a man enters the starting line of a race three hundred years after another man, the second would have to perform some incredible feat in order to catch up." \n"A society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for him, to equip him to compete on a just and equal basis." \n"... for 15 centuries the Negro was enslaved and robbed of any wages — potential accrued wealth which would have been the legacy of his descendants. All of America's wealth today could not adequately compensate its Negroes for his centuries of exploitation and humiliation. It is an economic fact that a program such as I propose would certainly cost far less than any computation of two centuries of unpaid wages plus accumulated interest. In any case, I do not intend that this program of economic aid should apply only to the Negro: it should benefit the disadvantaged of all races." \n\n\nHere what he said about America\n"Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as his divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world. God has a way of standing before the nations with justice and it seems I can hear God saying to America "you are too arrogant, and if you don't change your ways, I will rise up and break the backbone of your power, and I will place it in the hands of a nation that doesn't even know my name. Be still and know that I'm God."
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Me?\n\nI don't think you can quantify such a thing. I am a scientist and work with many of the world's top minds in their specialized field. Could they manage to go grocery shopping on their own? No way, yet they can clone a cat. Go figure.\n\nA great author or poet is smart in one way, while a brilliant mathematician is smart in another.  \n\nI guess you want an all around Jack of All trades smart guy. Well Ken Jennings from Jeopardy has a lot of trivia knowledge and knows amny subjects, but no one would call him the smartest person on the planet.  Einstein was a great physicist yet he was a lousy artist.\n\nI think  you can be the best at somthing, but not the best at everything.
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Einstein, The man of the quantity.
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He was an african american inventor. He patented the electronic resistor.
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Most definitely a SCIENTIST!!  Sacred Geometry! the Golden Mean! 12 around 1!!  He is truly the Divine Architect!!!
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The brilliant mathematicians I know (and I do know a few) are very sensible and pleasant people. What are you basing this ridiculous assumption on? Or are you hoping that being bad at math can be twisted into a positive thing?
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Isaac Newton was the greatest English mathematician of his generation. \nHe laid the foundation for differential and integral calculus.\nHis work on optics and gravitation make him one of the greatest scientists the world has known\n\nI also feel he made a step towards the understanding the workings of Karma as one of his laws of physic states. \n-- For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. --\n\nIts all food for thought.
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Hmmm!  tie between Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein.  Simply mention their names...
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1) William H. Gates III\n2) No \n3) http://evan.snew.com/ecgi/gates.cgi?060687680191623895235372544030602\n4) Stephen Wolfram
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If you have taken an IQ test, you will notice that it is strongly math based.  Blacks for years have been denied equal education.  You would score lower too if you were forced to have an inferior education.  Remember that slavery was not long ago, and slaves were mostly illiterate.  They could not teach their children, and so forth.  It will take a long time to undo this injustice.  Meantime, I'll bet Colin Powell has a higher IQ than you.
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A friend of mine is currently pursuing his doctorate in U.S. history here at the University of Wisconsin - his dissertation's on African-American athletes in the 19th century. It's a fabulous school and has strong grad programs. You should check it out.
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It is a lecture given by prominent African-American Mathematicians  more can be found at
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It is Albert Einstein.
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Martin Luther, a German religious reformer said that one (not to be confused with Martin Luther King)!\n\nWonder why mathematics makes people sad?  Oh well...not me though...I love math!
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E=mc^2  he was a genius.