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Say who your favourite mathematician is.
Fuck off.

Paul Dirac.

myself

Newton, best mathematician and physicist who ever lived.

Pure maths? Inclined to say Newton

A tie between John von Neumann and Oliver Heaviside.

Pure mathsssssss a shit.

Definitely Dirac.
He dated Jane Russell. They were out for a walk, and both tripped, with Dirac landing on top of Jane.
Somebody said, "Hey, look at Dirac on Jane Russell."
I crack myself up.

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There are no math gods.

That being said; There are no math gods other than Gauss.

Henri Poincaré, no doubt

>nobody representing my man Ramanujan

What the fuck, Veeky Forums?

>Oliver Heaviside
Famous quote: Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?

poo

Pic related has mathematically proven that the second law of thermodynamics disproves evolution.
>inb4 he's a crank
He's a tenured professor and author of the number one book used in the world to teach computation linear algebra. He has also publish in high ranking journals.

What's his name?

granville sewell

Newton

>disproves evolution

Indeed thermodynamics does seem to disprove evolution but there is some nuance related to pattern formation in non-equilibrium energy flows that means you can't really disprove it on thermodynamics alone.

I disproved it with linear algebra
>The Truth About Evolution
>vixra.org/abs/1602.0132

he also disproved hair

Slave Knight Gael

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Literally just doesn't understand entropy. People who have taken thermo don't parrot the disorder meme.

Leonhard Euler

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unironically this

>Literally just doesn't understand entropy.
Yet he has many peer reviewed publications on entropy.
Stay triggered.

>having favourites
brainlet detected

You can 'mathematically prove' nearly anything, you're the one that dictates the mathematics and starting assumptions/position. This doesn't negate reality, obviously. Him being reputable means nothing, plenty of reputable retards, some who intentionally go out of their way to be contrarian and "different". A lot of popsci books are like this too, legitimate academics spouting bullshit for public relevancy.

>mathematician
>evolution

>doing science
>being biased

>publishing because of reputation rather than merit
dick

How can other mathematicians even compete?

shouldn't Newton be disqualified because he was a radical christian?

Weyl was awesome

only mathematician that had a supreme command of philosophy as well

Newton wasn't a mathematician

disciplines hadn't speciated back then

>Oliver Heaviside
Shit mathematician

Why should he be disqualified because of that?

People are retarded outside of their own niche field.

In terms of character, I would have to go with Erdos. In terms of mathematics, I would have to go with Hilbert just because Hilbert spaces are one of the best spaces you can work with, and forms the backbone of Functional Analysis.

Even if they had, he'd still be a mathematician.

ramanujan, no doubt

God tier: Newton, Gauss

High tier: Euclid, Fourier, Euler, Riemann, von Neumann, Hilbert,

Grigori Perelman

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