Biggest waste of talent in mathematics history

>mathematical genius, child prodigy
>becomes a religious nut makes up the highly illogical pascal's wager

its a shame

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Evariste Galois

>Dying in a duel for a 3DPD

but was Galois even good to begin with?

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godel starved to death because he was scared of being poisoned

Perhaps he was physically intimidated by his local religious community

yeah but he already achieved greatness...i mean the incompleteness theorem is the greatest advancement in logic since the days of Aristotle and certified himself as the premier logician of the 20th century

He developed a new area of mathematics

wittgenstein went away for two years then he wrote TLP, and thus in russell's eyes, solidified himself as one of those wishy washy obscurantist such as hegel and the likes. needless to say russell didn't understand the book and wittgenstein straight up told him to his face that he will never understand it after his phd defense

It's hard to say whether or not Wittgenstein had any real mathematical talent though

Yeah, the man scribbled down a bunch of shit down the night before he died which turned out to be some pretty good shit. He was also only like 21 too.

reminder pascal's wager is really just argumentum ad populum

>>It's hard to say whether or not Wittgenstein had any real mathematical talent though
russell had the idea of training mathematicians to solve philosophical problems using the newly developed logic of the time. he strongly believed wittgenstein had a lot of potential in this regard.

20.
Cauchy also rejected two of his papers "for uncertain reasons," i.e. probably because he was an ardent monarchist and Galois had been both expelled and jailed as a well-known republican agitator

She had friendzoned him and he was dueling "to defend her honor."
Galois was cute af, it's sad the sloots didn't appreciate him as much as I could've

It also doesn't consider the possibility that only atheists go to heaven.

haha it's almost like people can have interests besides pure mathematics

also nice b8

>Wittgenstein concluded that the Tractatus had resolved all philosophical problems

uhhh... yea....

>implying the advancement of formal logic hadn't been the domain of the Christian intellectuals since the high middle ages

Are you implying he was obligated to use his life for your purposes rather than his own?

>correlation is causation
>because they and most everyone else so happened to be christian, christianity itself can be said to be a cause

me, because im really smart but im just lazy!!!

>>>Wittgenstein concluded that the Tractatus had resolved all philosophical problems
he said he was completely wrong years later and tried to write more about it before he died.

And why didn't all the nonchristian peoples develop math and science?

>>And why didn't all the nonchristian peoples develop math and science?
its pretty hard to expect ALL nonchristian people to do something that they don't see as beneficial to themselves

go on

Pascal's wager is only illogical from the modern perspective with our current understanding of the universe.

If you are missing information, then it makes perfect sense, at least from a game theory point of view.

What non-christian people? They were all slaughtered.

Gauss was clearly an atheist in contrast to Euler who was a devout christian

90% of christian intellectuals throughout history were simply pretending to be christian so they wouldn't be burnt at the stake by a mob of dumb sheep. Smart people lie, dumb people die.

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>Leonard Euler(1707-1783)
>Carl Friedrich Gauss(1777-1855)
Euler and Gauss lived in very different times. It would seem that if their birth dates had been reversed, ceteris paribus, Euler would have been atheist and Gauss would have been a devout christian.

so when were Educated Europeans allowed to become atheists than

the beginning of the 19th century or something?

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>eulerarchive.maa.org//docs/translations/E092trans.pdf
>A Defense of the Divine Revelation against the Objections of the so called Freethinkers

Reminder that the Chinese came up with Pascal's triangle at least 350 years before Pascal did.

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Because Christianity is a very complex system of thought which includes seemingly irrational (hyper-rational) statements like the Trinity. These statements needed to be rationalised by people in order to be understood. Whereas Hinduism and Buddhism shunned intellectual pursuits from a religious/philosophical perspective, Christians had no choice but to enter into them. They believed that the creator of the Universe was like a man and that therefor the laws of the universe could be known. The simple fact that they are called laws (whether mathematical or physical) is indicative of the fact that they believed there was a 'lawmaker'. Muslims are incapable of developing beyond their current level because their holy book can neither be amended or speculated upon given that it is considered to be 'whole and unalterable' the last message of God. It is in fact a step backward. Jews lived side by side with Christians and it is difficult to see how they would have contributed to science in anyway had this not been so.

>conveniently ignoring the islamic golden age, without which there would be no mathematics
Fuck off back to

That should read "modern mathematics" but the point still stands.

He spent months compiling his notes and making them digestible because he felt it likely he would die in the duel. He didn't do it the night before.

Biggie smalls
>was murdered in a drive by shooting

Implying religions don't go through reforms, fuck off and learn some history.

You either don't understand the argument or you don't understand what ad populum is (like most people who use the Latin tags to sound smart).

False dichotomy is a better term to describe the argument.

>mfw im the same age as Galois yet can't even solve simple inequalities

What if it were true that a great mind could conclude that God exists?

There were many things that this mind could conclude that yours could not. Perhaps you're shaking your fist at something you, quite simply, are not intelligent enough to understand.

But probably not, though, right? I mean, we all know your conclusions to the far-reaching questions of humanity are the most decisive.

Pascal's wager is perfectly logical.

>mfw I'm Galois' age doing Galois theory

The Slavic golden age was ok.
Then wahabism screw everything up.

>islamic

Ahahaha... oh wow. The early churches in Rome and Constantinople ruled to preserve the knowledge the ancients and build on it. When the muslims invaded and ransacked the libraries at Constantinople and Alexandria they stole all of the books on mathematics and medicine and destroyed everything else that didn't fit their ideology. They set the west back centuries and brought about the Dark Ages, but don't let me stop you sucking muslim dick.

Now gtfo back to your containment board

you mean the islamic golden age that was predicated upon mostly white greek knowledge

Not bad

>Whereas Hinduism and Buddhism shunned intellectual pursuits from a religious/philosophical perspective
citation needed

Oh dear lord. You don't need a citation, just look at the precepts of their religions. Intellectual pursuits are fine, but they are not to be overly indulged; according to them. They sit around all day trying not to think and trying not to do anything so that we won't find ourselves in the situation we are in now where the things we have invented have the capacity to completely destroy us.

I know this thread is basically dead, but I just came back to point out how stupid Muslims are. Muslims believe that at some point everyone on Earth will be a Muslim. They tried this shit in the 7th Century, but as their Empire expanded they began to lose control.

They hadn't taken the time to develop proper communications so their caliphate was always going to fail. But worse then this; imagine if everyone in the world did indeed become Muslim. The population would explode. Imagine a world of 10 billion Muslims each one having to make a trip to Mecca at least once in their lifetime to walk around their stupiod box. Imagine the mayhem that would ensue from that. Thousands are trampelled to death each year there, as it is. The Muslims are the weakest link. Goodbye.

High schooler detected

Fag detected.

>I ain't never herd of no Galois theorems, durr
gtfo pleb

Galois didn't choose you.

you are a fool

>conviniently ignoring the islamic empire making mathematics illegal in 1000AD, and them making no meaningful progress since then
>>>/somewhere else/

Have any proof for that? Many, perhaps the majority, of those people were also theologians and have works written exclusively about God. If you were just pretending, why would you go through the trouble of developing Christian philosophy? Why not just do your science and passively attend church?

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this guy was pretty clever too

his teacher in highschool said that he could become the greatest mathematician of all time if he lived long enough

died at 26

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>seemingly irrational (hyper-rational)

lmao, kys