Who is the greatest Mathematition you  have ever seen,why?
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I would say Albert Einstein, even though i haven't seen him.\nI pick him because he was proven to be stupid, dumb, and a bit mental, but he achieved success in all his goals. And also, he became famous for his inventions.\n\nP.S. You spelled Mathematician wrong.
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I think Isaac Newton might have been as good, considering the limitations of his own time. Just remember he had to develop a new whole math to support his theories! (calculus) Then I dunno, but today Stephen Hawking? Have you read a brief history of time and the universe in a nutshell? I dunno, really, Einstein was GREAT!
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Trig might be the most visually accesible mathematical form.  I know of math, I have studied physics, I have studied Computer Science, I practice these things as I practice my guitar, my singing, and my dancing.  Mathematics is a tool for understanding, and I do believe, humankind's purest expression of truth.
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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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You've gotta put Euler on your list; he's one of the most prolific mathematicians EVER.  Archimedes is probably the best ancient mathematician.  (Pythagoras may be famous for his theorem, but that theorem was known to the Chinese before Pythagoras' time.)  For a name that's been passed down through the ages, though, you've gotta go with al-Khowarizmi.  While he wasn't an innovator, his classic text "al-Jabr wa'l Muqabala" gave us the term "algebra" and his name is the basis of our word "algorithm".
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Well, if you are really interested in knowing about his life and his work, I strongly recomend you to watch the film "Hawking". It is a really great show. I too also admire him a lot. He is still alive till today.
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A British Mathematician called Alan Turing.\n\nYou can read about him at\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing\n\nQuite an inspirational character, and at the same time sad.
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I'm assuming you mean Einstein, but I would have to go with Newton. He invented calculus and was absolutely revolutionary in developing elementary physics. Now, obviously Einstein was brilliant too, but at least he had a long background of physicists to build on. He stood on the shoulders of giants, one of which is newton.
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Descartes made one of the greatest advances in geometry by connecting algebra and geometry. A myth is that he was watching a fly on the ceiling when he conceived of locating points on a plane with a pair of numbers. Maybe this has something to do with the fact that he stayed in bed everyday until 11:00 A.M. Fermat also discovered coordinate geometry, but it's Descartes' version that we use today.\n\nCo-ordinate Geometry\nCo-ordinate geometry was introduced by Fermat and Descartes, ignoring rather than solving the foundational problems which had prevented the Greeks from taking this step (viz: the lack of any well understood number system which could account for incommensurable ratios). \nThis development is important to science because it makes geometry quantitative and permits the use of algebraic methods. Geometry must be quantitative for it to be useful in science and engineering, and algebraic methods permit more rapid development of mathematics than the less systematic (if more rigourous) methods required by the Greek axiomatic approach to geometry. \n \nIn co-ordinate geometry the points of a plane are labelled by 2 co-ordinates, its distances from the 2 axes, and familiar figures become the loci of points satisfying an algebraic equation. Thus, geometry is incorporated into algebra and the way is opened for the introduction of spaces of arbitrarily large dimension, important in mechanics. Curvature, in its simplest form, is a number attached to a surface at a point. The flatter the surface, the smaller the number (positive for a sphere, negative for a saddle-shaped surface). \nFrench mathematician who is often called the founder of the modern theory of numbers. Together with René Descartes, Fermat was one of the two leading mathematicians of the first half of the 17th century. Independently of Descartes, Fermat discovered the fundamental principle of analytic geometry. His methods for finding tangents to curves and their maximum and minimum points led him to be regarded as the inventor of the differential calculus. Through his correspondence with Blaise Pascal he was a co-founder of the theory of probability.\n\n\nhttp://people.bath.ac.uk/jm255/Geometry.htm this website will help u aswell!\n\nAnalytic geometry, also called coordinate geometry and earlier referred to as Cartesian geometry, is the study of geometry using the principles of algebra. Usually the Cartesian coordinate system is applied to manipulate equations for planes, lines, curves, and circles, often in two and sometimes in three dimensions of measurement. As taught in school books, analytic geometry can be explained more simply: it is concerned with defining geometrical shapes in a numerical way, and extracting numerical information from that representation. The numerical output, however, might also be a vector or a shape. Some consider that the introduction of analytic geometry was the beginning of modern mathematics.\n\nRené Descartes is popularly regarded as having introduced the foundation for the methods of analytic geometry in 1637 in the appendix titled Geometry of the titled Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason in the Search for Truth in the Sciences, commonly referred to as Discourse on Method. This work, written in his native language (French), and its philosophical principles, provided the foundation for calculus in Europe.\n\nThe relationship between algebra and geometry is nontrivial. There exist proofs of this relationship based on the theory of geometry and notions of geometric length.\n\n\n\nwrite this down and im finding more info ......
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What else... Physics!\n\nSince your question is very comman, the commanest answer would be "Physics".\n\nIn case you have any particular concept in mind state it clearly in your question then the model with respect mathematics can be given sooooooon.
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this may be somewhat subjective, eh?\n\n1) Euclid's work\n2) Isaac Newton's calculus\n3) ___________________ (open for discussion) The Pythagoreans? Archimedes? The development of Algebra from al-jah-bra...dang - i'm anxious to see the other answers
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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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He constructed the the general theory of relativity.\nHis ideas were extremely original.\nHe predicted that light beams can be deviated by mass of the sun.\nHe predicted a peculiar movement of the planet Mercury.\nExperimentally both theoretical statements were confirmed by observations.\nSo he was a real genius.\n\nTh
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Carl Friedrich Gauss (30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician and scientist of profound genius who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, magnetism, astronomy and optics. Sometimes known as "the prince of mathematicians", Gauss had a remarkable influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked beside Euler, Newton and Archimedes as one of history's greatest mathematicians.
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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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This theorem has an amazing number of proofs but this theorem(like many other mathematical concepts) as you said was known way before pythogorean times but only to INDIANS who didnt share it on the global scale!!