Who is the greatest ancient mathematician of all time

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Évariste_Galois

Archimedes. Hands down.

>ancient
>1800s
Fug you guys are dumb

You spelled Galois wrong

Pythagoras

The only answer is Archimedes

user the Atlantean

Galwah

Archimedes is a genius...but isn't there a little Eurocentricism going on

I mean is Archimedes really better than the ancient Arabic and Indian Mathematicians like Bhamagupta, or Arybhatta etc.?

Is Galoah a meme?

>eurocentrism

Get out

Oilah

im just asking...is Archimedes better than the Ancient Indian and Arabic mathematicians that I mentioned

The African who notched tallies on the bone many thousands of years ago.

early 1800s are not ancient

we had many mathematicians from the BCs

Galois

Definitely Galois.

To be honest, yes. He was centuries ahead in his understanding and contributions while also basically creating statitcs. That's as good as you get as a human.

Euler was very good but he certainly wasn't great.
He hadn't done much by 25 but he did produce tons of work and actually wanted to teach mathematics to everyone.
Great guy and a good mathematician for sure.

Archimedes, certainly. He was a damn genius. The closest one to him in history would be Cauchy.

I think in terms of long-standing mathematical contributions he's on top, but as a flat out genius he lags behind Galois. Not that I've studied historical mathematics.

Is Galois better than Gauss?

Is Archimedes better than Bhamagupta though

the guy that invented zero...or Arybhatta

Grothendick or Von Newman

Some of you guys are using "ancient" pretty liberally in your mentions i must say

some people are thinking "ancient" means anyone in the past that has died

I agree both Grothy and Neumann are geniuses of the first order, but are they really "ancient"

yes anything before 1970 is ancient in my book

In terms of flat out genius, everyone in Euler's time lags behind Newton.
The Bernoulli's used to set mathematical challenges to the mathematical community, and Newton would solve them overnight. The next fastest solution would be two weeks behind.
Even back then Newton was considered a monster.

Wait Newton was a mathematician?

I thought he was a physicist?

everyone was a mathematician back then

You guys are just being contrarian motherfuckers. Euclid was clearly the most forward-thinking and brilliant.

Ramanujan

James Grimes

This:
Also the Newton's laws that he's famous for aren't even due to him, he never wrote down things such as F = ma. Euler did.
That said, there are tons of stuff that people are famous for that they actually didn't do, for example, d'Alembert is famous for the wave equation but actually, he didn't even write it down.

Diogenes.

kek

what are you talking about? Newton wrote down the laws in The Principia?

Nope, he wrote them in words, but the formulae that we know today are Euler's.

oh, your right.....

How did Euler know about Newton though....Euler was swiss, Newton was english? and at that time it was hard to communicate accross countries

Greatest non-feathered biped that ever lived.

I thought Archimedes discovered integrals

*with flat nails

I don't know. I could see him ripping out his nails just to spite Plato

You're absolutely right that communication was difficult, but people did write to each other regardless, even if their letters took a month to reach the other person.
I'm not actually sure if there's any correspondence between Euler and Newton, but he probably heard about him from other mathematicians (such as the Bernoullis when mathematical problems were posted).

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Gauss

Galois was the greatest ancient mathematician.

kek

kek

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>i liek math

Hominid that notice one stick and one stick is same as two stick.
Urg tuk-tuk III

Grothendieck

Gauss

>According to one story,[9] Diogenes went to the Oracle at Delphi to ask for its advice and was told that he should "deface the currency".

>faggot comes at me, oh the great oracle, to seek purpose in life
>he is the son of a banker, this gonna be gud
>"oh I see! you shall make money worthless! yep, that's your future, tell me how it goes"
>gets exiled
>laugh my ass off
Ancient oracles, the fathers of trolls.

>anything before 1 millennium ago
>ancient
It's definitely either Euclid or Archimedes.

Back then the only practical use for mathematical research was for physics (and Newton was the first one to apply it as much as he did), so physicists were also mathematicians. Before Newton it was seen as something to do in your spare time, so it was mostly done by rich people with little better to do.

Now it has a lot more applications so physics has since diverged from mathematics, but modern physics still requires plenty of mathematics.

The standard language used for scientific text back then was Latin.

defintelly Archimedes

The guy who invented the number one.

Do you now know what "ancient" means you retard?

Euclid was a drooling brainlet compared to Archimedes

Hippasus was cooler than Pythagoras.

>le irrational numbers don't exist because they hurt my fee-fees man
lolno

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>memematicians
I dont think so senpai