Who is the best mathematician ever and why?
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If only including Humans ( excluding God ),\nI would say,\n\n" Gauss, Karl Friedrich (1777-1855) "\n\nor better known as "Gauss".\n\nWhy? Because, among we mathematicans, he's the only one who got the title from his peers "prince of mathematics". \n\nI guess the opinion of the mathematicans counts the most in answering this question.\n\nGauss contributions were enormous.\n\nRegards
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The answer above is correct.  He's amazing...the best.
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Euclid (also referred to as Euclid of Alexandria) (Greek: Εὐκλείδης) (c. 325–c. 265 BC), a Greek mathematician, who lived in Alexandria, Hellenistic Egypt, almost certainly during the reign of Ptolemy I (323 BC–283 BC), is often considered to be the "father of geometry". His most popular work, Elements, is thought to be one of the most successful textbooks in the history of mathematics. Within it, the properties of geometrical objects are deduced from a small set of axioms, thereby founding the axiomatic method of mathematics.\n\nAlthough best-known for its geometric results, the Elements also includes various results in number theory, such as the connection between perfect numbers and Mersenne primes, the proof of the infinitude of prime numbers, Euclid's lemma on factorization (which lead to the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, on uniqueness of prime factorizations), and the Euclidean algorithm for finding the greatest common divisor of two numbers.\n\nEuclid also wrote works on perspective, conic sections, spherical geometry, and possibly quadric surfaces. Neither the year nor place of his birth have been established, nor the circumstances of his death.\nIn geometry, the parallel postulate, also called Euclid's fifth postulate since it is the fifth postulate in Euclid's Elements, is a distinctive axiom in what is now called Euclidean geometry. It states that:\n\nIf a line segment intersects two straight lines forming two interior angles on the same side that sum to less than two right angles, then the two lines, if extended indefinitely, meet on that side on which the angles sum to less than two right angles.\n\nEuclidean geometry is the study of geometry that satisfies all of Euclid's axioms, including the parallel postulate. A geometry where the parallel postulate cannot hold is known as a non-euclidean geometry. Geometry that is independent of Euclid's fifth postulate (i.e., only assumes the first four postulates) is known as absolute geometry (or, in some places, neutral geometry).
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Nikitha Krushchev\n\nIn an unbiased view he was the best
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Fermat, I think.  He wrote he had found a proof for this, but put a note in the margin that there wasn't enough room there for the proof.  And no-one could find the proof anywhere else in his notes and he died.  A fellow named Andrew Wiles worked for a long time to find the proof, and after some ill-fated public announcements I think the proof was finally completed.\n\nI hope this helps.
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Euclid of Alexandria (Greek: Εὐκλείδης) (ca. 325 BC–265 BC), a Greek mathematician, who lived in Alexandria, Egypt almost certainly during the reign of Ptolemy I (323 BC–283 BC), is often considered to be the "father of geometry". \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid\n\nIt seems Euclid is the father, by general consent! -\nhttp://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/52508.html\n\nEuclid, who is considered the father of mathematics, taught in Egypt at Alexandria.\nhttp://everyschool.org/u/logan/culturalmath/afmathematicians.htm\n\nPythagoras (approximately 582 BC–507 BC, Greek: Πυθαγόρας) was an Ionian (Greek) mathematician and philosopher, founder of the mystic, religious and scientific society called Pythagoreans, and is known best for the Pythagorean theorem which bears his name. Known as "the father of numbers":\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras\n\nArchimedes (Greek: Αρχιμήδης ) (c. 287 BC – 212 BC) was an ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and philosopher born in the seaport colony of Syracuse, Sicily. He is considered by some historians of mathematics to be one of the greatest mathematicians in antiquity; Carl Friedrich Gauss considered him one of the two greatest ever (the other being himself.)\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes\n\nAl-Khwarizmi is held to be the father of algebra:\nhttp://www.math.umd.edu/~czorn/hist_algebra.pdf\n\nRene Descartes (March 31, 1596 – February 11, 1650), also known as Cartesius, is considered to be the father of modern mathematics:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rene_Descartes\nhttp://www.hi.is/~joner/eaps/descart2.htm
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You have so many choices:\n\n  1. Carl F. Gauss\n  2. Sir Isaac Newton\n  3. Leonhard Euler\n  4. Archimedes  of Syracuse\n  5. Euclid  of Alexandria\n  6. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz\n  7. Henri Poincaré\n  8. Pierre de Fermat\n  9. Augustin Cauchy\n10. Bernhard Riemann
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Impossible to compare. Both were the preeminent scientists of their generations. Einstein certainly knew a lot More, but he had the advantage of having Newton & many others shoulders to stand on.
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Aryabhatta.... he invented "0"... without which we would not know maths or physics as it is today... and oh yeah... the computers would not be there without the 0s and 1s.
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Pele` without a doubt was THE BEST. Following hin very, very far one from Eusebio - George Best - Sivori: it only depends from personal opinion.
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Yes Mathematics is the universal lansuage and Einstein is considered a genius not because he was good at maths but because he was a great scientist. Einstein contributed more than any other scientist to the modern vision of physical reality. His special and general theories of relativity are still regarded as the most satisfactory model of the large-scale universe that we have..
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Hands down, it's Albert Einstein, because his intellect was so far ranging that we are, to this day, still discovering facets of his theories and proving him right, yet again! His mind was so far beyond his contemporaries that it has always been difficult to find scientists who could follow his teachings. He was brilliant beyond belief!
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If you'd spelled the mathematician's (not "mathmeticion") last name correctly, it would have been easier to find ;-)\n\nSee these links:\n\nhttp://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Lobachevsky.html\nhttp://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Lobachevsky.html\nhttp://www.phy.bg.ac.yu/web_projects/giants/lobach~1.htm
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A great one would be Euclid, a Greek geometer who wrote the "Elements", the world's most definitive text on geometry. The book synthesized earlier knowledge about geometry, and was used for centuries in western Europe as a geometry textbook. \n\nhttp://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Euclid.html\nhttp://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Euclid.html\nhttp://mathworld.wolfram.com/Elements.html
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Dr. No.\n\nBy far the best.
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Lookup euclid and euler in wikipedia and see their years of birth and death. Then lookup 'mathematicians' and check out each of those years of birth and death. Pick 5 that lived and worked betwen euclid and eulers time. The fact they are listed in wikipedia at all would imply they are eminent, but you can also read up on whether they achieved something outstanding. I'm sure your teacher will want to know a bit about why you and others consider them 'eminent'.\n\nOn the mathematicians page, there is a link to a 'list of mathematicians' page with A to Z categories below that. If you click on A for example, it lists those mathematicians beginning with A with the dates on a single page. That makes the job quite easy.
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you have to realize that both of these scientists have done slightly different things, and that to compare them or to say which one is better makes no sense.  if you ask which one had a greater impact on everyday life, i would say einstein, because his theories help make much of modern technology possible