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Greatest mathematician ever?


As brilliant as this dude was, and of course not counting Newton (the obvious choice for #1) considering him as a physicist, to me, the greatest of them all is Euler.

Then Gauss, then Laplace, then the rest.

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Tough one. Not counting Newton, I am inclined to agree with Euler but would give a shout-out to Euclid for kinda kicking things off in a way. And Cauchy for just the sheer number of things named after him!

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Ever heard of Srinivasa Ramanujan?

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or Archimedes?

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What about Alan Turing?

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