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#1 2012-06-11 22:17:50
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Can you suggest six names of great mathematicians quickly?
I require to do a school project on Three Great Mathematicians. So can you give me a list of six such people so that I can choose from?
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#2 2012-06-11 22:24:41
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Euler, Newton, Fibonacci, Boole, Descartes, Ramanujan
(I feel bad for not mentioning a dozen more!)
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#3 2012-06-11 22:43:57
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Hi;
Newton
Euler
De Moivre
Descartes
Legendre
Laplace, Cayley or Brook Taylor!
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
90% of mathematicians do not understand 90% of currently published mathematics.
I am willing to wager that over 75% of the new words that appeared were nothing more than spelling errors that caught on.
#4 2012-06-12 00:31:03
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Hi,
Newton
Descartes
Euler
Abel
Cantor
Euclid
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#5 2012-06-12 01:06:00
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A few others to consider:
Gauss
Riemann
Archimedes
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#6 2012-06-12 08:56:45
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Euler
Gauss
Poisson
Dirichlet
Knuth
Leibniz
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#7 2012-06-12 22:49:02
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Its OK Thank You All
Now that I have chosen Fibonacci may I get a list of contributions to mathematics by him? (appart from fibonacci sequence, i know it, its awesome)
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
'The whole person changes, why can't a habit?' -65
#8 2012-06-12 22:57:02
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Here is a little known achievement of his.
He was able to get the positive root of
to 10 correct digits and no one knows how he did it way back then.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
90% of mathematicians do not understand 90% of currently published mathematics.
I am willing to wager that over 75% of the new words that appeared were nothing more than spelling errors that caught on.
#9 2012-06-12 23:52:14
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Thank You
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
'The whole person changes, why can't a habit?' -65
#10 2012-06-12 23:55:32
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Hi Agnishom;
He was also one of the first to bring Arabic numbers to Europe.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
90% of mathematicians do not understand 90% of currently published mathematics.
I am willing to wager that over 75% of the new words that appeared were nothing more than spelling errors that caught on.
#11 2012-06-12 23:58:20
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Hmm I have got those ones from
http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~cherlin/History/Papers1999/oneill.html
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
'The whole person changes, why can't a habit?' -65
#12 2012-06-13 03:57:12
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Fibonacci is best known to the modern world for the spreading of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system in Europe, primarily through the publication in 1202 of his Liber Abaci (Book of Calculation), and for a number sequence named the Fibonacci numbers after him, which he did not discover but used as an example in the Liber Abaci.
Liber Abaci also posed, and solved, a problem involving the growth of a population of rabbits based on idealized assumptions. The solution, generation by generation, was a sequence of numbers later known as Fibonacci numbers. The number sequence was known to Indian mathematicians as early as the 6th century, but it was Fibonacci's Liber Abaci that introduced it to the West.
In the Fibonacci sequence of numbers, each number is the sum of the previous two numbers, starting with 0 and 1. This sequence begins 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987 ...
The higher up in the sequence, the closer two consecutive "Fibonacci numbers" of the sequence divided by each other will approach the golden ratio (approximately 1 : 1.618 or 0.618 : 1).
Character is who you are when no one is looking.
#13 2012-06-13 04:52:42
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What are the 2 other mathematicians you chose?
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#14 2012-06-13 15:52:25
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Hi Agnishom;
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
90% of mathematicians do not understand 90% of currently published mathematics.
I am willing to wager that over 75% of the new words that appeared were nothing more than spelling errors that caught on.
#15 2012-06-13 17:57:03
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I am not sure how much I believe that story.
The limit operator is just an excuse for doing something you know you can't.
“It's the subject that nobody knows anything about that we can all talk about!” ― Richard Feynman
“A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón
#16 2012-06-13 18:30:49
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You're not sure?
I know how much I believe it.
Bob
ps. Please have a look at the http://www.mathisfunforum.com/viewtopic … 89&p=1 thread.
Your last post was #69, so you may like to start there.
Bob
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself..........Galileo Galilei
#17 2012-06-13 18:52:47
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I have read it before. I answered your question.
The limit operator is just an excuse for doing something you know you can't.
“It's the subject that nobody knows anything about that we can all talk about!” ― Richard Feynman
“A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón
#18 2012-06-13 21:35:39
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Pappym used to say, "Ye, of little faith."
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
90% of mathematicians do not understand 90% of currently published mathematics.
I am willing to wager that over 75% of the new words that appeared were nothing more than spelling errors that caught on.
#19 2012-06-14 04:32:42
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I believed many things you have said,but that I will not.
The limit operator is just an excuse for doing something you know you can't.
“It's the subject that nobody knows anything about that we can all talk about!” ― Richard Feynman
“A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón
#20 2012-06-14 04:37:10
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In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
90% of mathematicians do not understand 90% of currently published mathematics.
I am willing to wager that over 75% of the new words that appeared were nothing more than spelling errors that caught on.
#21 2012-06-14 04:38:46
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But who can guarantee either sides of the story?
The limit operator is just an excuse for doing something you know you can't.
“It's the subject that nobody knows anything about that we can all talk about!” ― Richard Feynman
“A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón
#22 2012-06-14 04:40:49
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In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
90% of mathematicians do not understand 90% of currently published mathematics.
I am willing to wager that over 75% of the new words that appeared were nothing more than spelling errors that caught on.
#23 2012-06-14 04:46:35
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That doesn't and shouldn't be true. E.g. if you said that Hitler was a great guy who loved Jews,should I believe you?
The limit operator is just an excuse for doing something you know you can't.
“It's the subject that nobody knows anything about that we can all talk about!” ― Richard Feynman
“A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón
#24 2012-06-14 04:52:29
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Hi Agnishom;
Here are another 6:
Pascal
Cardano
Tartaglia
Fermat
Leibniz
The whole Bernoulli clan.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
90% of mathematicians do not understand 90% of currently published mathematics.
I am willing to wager that over 75% of the new words that appeared were nothing more than spelling errors that caught on.
#25 2012-06-14 05:07:04
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I am just saying that something you say isn't always necessarily true. You have admitted yourself that you can sometimes be wrong.
The limit operator is just an excuse for doing something you know you can't.
“It's the subject that nobody knows anything about that we can all talk about!” ― Richard Feynman
“A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón