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So guys and gals who are your favorite scientists?

 

Ill start of with mine; Micheal Faraday (obviously), now i know your all gonna want to say the same about this magnficient man............

 

Beware; if anybody says 'Thomas Edison' fear yee for your life....

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Yes, some of that mathematics is quite involved.

 

My favourite scientist would have to be Euler, without a doubt. So many theorems and results:

 

[math]e^{i\pi} = -1[/math]

 

[math]\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{n^2} = \frac{\pi^2}{6}[/math]

 

Major breakthroughs in topology, number theory, and a lot more.

 

And to top it all, he did a lot of his best work towards the end of his life, when he was blinded by cateracts! Amazing man.

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Of course. However, I think Euler has the edge, considering the man went blind and still wrote new and inspiring mathematics.

 

Can you imagine doing that? Without being able to see?

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well i could actually. u don't need eyes to visalise mathematics. not in those days anyway. i would be well impressed if it was a blind man who painted mona lisa though.

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I have two :-

1) Gauss, because of the sheer number of brilliant results he proved

2) Schrodinger, because without his great equation we won't have the beauty of quantum mechanix

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Einstein, Maxwell, Edison ;) *mu hahah* and Feynman to mention a few... Since i just can't pic one...

 

Grr, well i warned you

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