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    Posted: November 23 2010 at 02:07
I arbitrarily decided on a strict cut-off of birthdates of 1550 to 1750, because this poll is intended to be about the relatively early work, and if I included Gauss at 1777 then there would be no logical reason for me not to also include Cauchy, Faraday, Maxwell, Ampere, etc. and then before you know it it's Tesla vs. Edison. And yeah, Tycho pretty much just wrote down an enormous amount of numbers, but maybe the more fastidious of you would appreciate that.

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Kepler's my favorite from the list.  Laplace and Lagrange are my mortal enemies. 
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Heh, I guess you're not a fan of doing Laplace transforms and finding Legrange points?

Also, look at this awesome portrait of Newton on Wiki, I hadn't seen it before.
Before I'd only seen the ones of him when he was a lot older and wearing the stupid wig. He was still 46 in that portrait, but I guess he wasn't famous enough to get one done when he was 20. I guess Newton was probably the most intelligent and absolutely dedicated person on this list, but if he had just published things when he wrote them he could have saved Leibniz a lot of trouble...
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Went with Euler.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe#Death
 
Good enough reason to vote for anyone. Math is dumb no troll.
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Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe#Death
 
Good enough reason to vote for anyone. Math is dumb no troll.

There is no dumb math, only dumb people.
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René Descartes, for his method and his RPG stores.
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Newton.
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Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe#Death
 
Good enough reason to vote for anyone. Math is dumb no troll.

There is no dumb math, only dumb people.


There are only dumb people? I guess that includes mathematicians so I'm ok with this.
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Laplace, because we have him as a forum user Tongue
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Points: 31169 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 23 2010 at 14:43
Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe#Death
 
Good enough reason to vote for anyone. Math is dumb no troll.

There is no dumb math, only dumb people.


There are only dumb people?

I started to disagree, but really I can't.
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Points: 28057 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 23 2010 at 15:06
Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe#Death
 
Good enough reason to vote for anyone. Math is dumb no troll.

There is no dumb math, only dumb people.


There are only dumb people?

I started to disagree, but really I can't.


Glad we're on the same page. Beer
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theoreticly you are all on the same page, since their are no page 2 yet  Geek
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Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe#Death
 
Good enough reason to vote for anyone. Math is dumb no troll.

There is no dumb math, only dumb people.


There are only dumb people?

I started to disagree, but really I can't.


Glad we're on the same page. Beer

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Points: 24304 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 23 2010 at 16:55
Hard to choose between Galilei, Newton and Pascal, but I finally voted for Newton.
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Points: 8368 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 23 2010 at 17:59
As a student of economics, I have to vote for Euler. I had to derive the so calle d"Euler equation" for my last Macroeconomics homework set. Of course, we use Lagrangian optimizations an awful lot too.
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Points: 29630 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 23 2010 at 19:21
Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Went with Euler.

He is well lubricated after all...
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Points: 18016 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 23 2010 at 19:25
Did you ever hear about the circumstances surrounding Descartes' death?

He was at a restaurant, and, after his meal, the waitress asked if he would like dessert.  He responded with "I think not."
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Out of the list: Mikołaj Kopernik (Nicolaus Copernicus: 1473 – 1543), a great Polish scientist who "stopped the Sun and moved the Earth". Cool

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