Valhalla Legends Forums Archive | Yoni's Math Forum | Which mathematician is better?

AuthorMessageTime
Yoni
If you want to post your vote, explain why you chose whoever you chose.
October 12, 2004, 3:44 PM
kamakazie
Gauss, because I like the story about him summing the integers from 1 to 100.  Essentially he did this in elementary school:

1 + 2 + ... + 99 + 100
100 + 99 + ... + 2 + 1
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101 + 101 + ... + 101 + 101

101 * 100 / 2 = 10100 / 2 = 5050

eMazing.
October 12, 2004, 7:27 PM
K
Euler.  Gotta respect anyone that keeps on cranking out theorems and such after he goes blind.
Quote from my (new zealander) calc 3 professor:
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Why in god's name does this book call this theorem "Euler's theorem?" Do you have any bloody idea how many theorems Euler came up with? And he still had time to have 13 children.
[/quote]
October 13, 2004, 4:08 AM
CrAzY
Euler is one of the greatest people to live.  You all should vote for him :).
October 27, 2004, 1:44 AM
idoL
I vote for Yoni.
November 9, 2004, 11:08 AM
Maddox
None of the above.
November 11, 2004, 5:23 AM

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