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Which mathematician is better?

Started by Yoni, October 12, 2004, 10:44 AM

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Which mathematician is better?

Euler, Leonhard (1707-1783)
Gauss, Karl Friedrich (1777-1855)

Yoni

If you want to post your vote, explain why you chose whoever you chose.

dxoigmn

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
----------------------------
101 + 101 + ... + 101 + 101

101 * 100 / 2 = 10100 / 2 = 5050

eMazing.

K

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.

CrAzY

Euler is one of the greatest people to live.  You all should vote for him :).
CrAzY

idoL


Maddox

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