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Member Forums => Yoni's Math Forum => Topic started by: Yoni on October 12, 2004, 10:44 AM

Poll
Question: Which mathematician is better?
Option 1: Euler, Leonhard (1707-1783)
Option 2: Gauss, Karl Friedrich (1777-1855)
Title: Which mathematician is better?
Post by: Yoni on October 12, 2004, 10:44 AM
If you want to post your vote, explain why you chose whoever you chose.
Title: Re: Which mathematician is better?
Post by: dxoigmn on October 12, 2004, 02:27 PM
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.
Title: Re: Which mathematician is better?
Post by: K on October 12, 2004, 11:08 PM
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.
Title: Re: Which mathematician is better?
Post by: CrAzY on October 26, 2004, 08:44 PM
Euler is one of the greatest people to live.  You all should vote for him :).
Title: Re: Which mathematician is better?
Post by: idoL on November 09, 2004, 05:08 AM
I vote for Yoni.
Title: Re: Which mathematician is better?
Post by: Maddox on November 10, 2004, 11:23 PM
None of the above.
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