who is your favorite mathematician and why?
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Pierre de fermat because of his intelligent works including his last theorem.
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My favorite is Donatello...and yours is too.
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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 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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Einstein- german born...\nA. Turin - englishman....\n\namerican mathematicians (alive):\nJohn Milnor\nBlaine Lawson\nThurston\nWitten \nTaubes\nD. McDuff\nC. Fefferman\nand many many many more
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My favorite is Ron White, he is too funny. I also like Jeff Dunham and his puppets.
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Yes, research a great mathematician and write a report.  What's the question?\n\nPerhaps you are looking for some mathematician suggestions?  How about Archimedes, Euler, Newton, Descartes, Pythagoras, or Liebnitz?   I'm sure others have some suggestions as well.
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My favorite is Lucy because she's so innocent, Edmund because he shows that NO one is perfect and temptation is powerful, and Peter because he has to look after them and he's courageous, brave, valiant, and caring. Other than them I like Aslan, The White Whitch, Mr. Tumnus, and the  beavers.
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John Nash. He's the subject of the book and movie, "A Beautiful Mind." Won Nobel Prize in Economics for the Nash Equilibrium.\n\nMartin Gardner. Regular contributor to "Scientific American."\n\nUnfortunately a lot of the math studied by most people predates the US, or was formed when the US was in its early days. \n\nI'm sure there are lots of American Mathematicians of note, but most of there work is way beyond most people's understanding or knowledge.\n\nIf you could Computer Science work withing mathematics, then there are more names to add, such as Knuth, Kleene and Karp (no association to the KKK.)
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I like maths and I'm very good at it. As I'd say, I do calculations every day. I also like chemistry, but only inorganic.  I find it very interesting.
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Are you kidding me? Sin(x) is awesome! I totally love sinx-ing  those sexy numbers :)\n\nI sinxed pi the other day, and it totally melted away.
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well, we cannot count Fermat, he is not a mathematician,its been said that Fermat is the greatest mathematician who wasn't a mathematician...Fermat was a Judge by profession and did mathematics to take his mind off of his cases.\n\nI would say that one of the greatest Mathematicians who had something to do with probability is Blaise Pascal
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I like Math so much.\nI always get A in the Math.
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Albert Einstein.  There are so many mysteries in the world, and I feel it would be fantastic to be able to solve some and come up with theories for others as well as Einstein.  (I love puzzles and mysteries, so in a small way I do know the feeling, but it would be amazing to do so in a large scale).
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Arbogast, Louis\nBachelier, Louis\nBaire, René-Louis\nCastel, Louis\nCauchy, Augustin-Louis \nCholesky, Andre-Louis \nCouturat, Louis\nde Bougainville, Louis \nde Broglie, Louis duc\nFrancoeur, Louis\nHoward, Louis Norberg (MIT Professor Emeritus now)\nKoszul, Jean-Louis \nLagrange, Joseph-Louis\nLions, Pierre-Louis\nLions, Jacques-Louis \nMalus, Etienne Louis \nMathieu, Claude-Louis\nMilne-Thomson, Louis \nMordell, Louis\nPoinsot, Louis \nPuissant, Louis\nRichard, Louis\n\nCertainly not all but a good list of some of the best.
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oddly enough, mine is math. i just love it. plus its the only thing i actually remember after a test(for some reason, my mind likes to erase things i've been tested on.)
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lol good question gotta be stephen"laryngitis"hawking for me