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he was a powerfull, powerfull man 
 
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Newton for his fig cookies. Tongue
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Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

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.




That picture reminds me of another British astrophysicist:



He's famous for writing a song about a time dilation.
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Who was that famous mathematician who was way too skilful with the sword? I think that also brought him to an early end. He lived around 1800. 
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Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

Who was that famous mathematician who was way too skilful with the sword? I think that also brought him to an early end. He lived around 1800. 
Évariste Galois
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Thanks Dean. I'd love to see a movie about that guy, something with Scott's intriguing visual style and era-recreation skills from The Duellists, but with the tragical undertone from Stephen Frear's Dangerous Liaisons.
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Points: 34055 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 25 2010 at 06:14

 I also believe Immanuel Kant also was quite the matematician genius
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Eh it's not really that close. Newton is Euler's only real competition on the list.

Taking Euler fairly obviously. 
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Points: 15784 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 26 2010 at 17:11
Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

Thanks Dean. I'd love to see a movie about that guy, something with Scott's intriguing visual style and era-recreation skills from The Duellists, but with the tragical undertone from Stephen Frear's Dangerous Liaisons.

I don't see hollywood jumping on a movie focusing on symmetric polynomials. 
"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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^ I film about a mathematician doesn't have to "focus" on mathematics. The guy had a very interesting life, and I thought it was pretty obvious that there's where I seen the filmic potential, not in the maths. 
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I think it was fairly obvious I was making a joke.
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Descartes for his coordinate system.  Probably the most important to my field of work.
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Points: 15784 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 26 2010 at 18:33
Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

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...

It's a good thing he didn't because Newton's notation makes the promulgation of the calculus nearly impossible and it's conceptual pathway is much more convoluted than Leibniz's. 
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Originally posted by Equality 7-2521 Equality 7-2521 wrote:

I think it was fairly obvious I was making a joke.




It wasn't, but I'll laugh now, it's a good one LOL
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Points: 16715 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 26 2010 at 22:59
Originally posted by Equality 7-2521 Equality 7-2521 wrote:

Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

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...
It's a good thing he didn't because Newton's notation makes the promulgation of the calculus nearly impossible and its conceptual pathway is much more convoluted than Leibniz's. 
I think Leibniz would have improved on the notation and method anyway. I was referring more to having to spend the final years of his life defending himself from accusations of plagiarism. 
Originally posted by UndercoverBoy UndercoverBoy wrote:

This guy:
Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

 
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Points: 65760 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 26 2010 at 23:18
Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

Originally posted by UndercoverBoy UndercoverBoy wrote:

This guy:
Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

 
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Points: 15784 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 27 2010 at 15:09
Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

 
I think Leibniz would have improved on the notation and method anyway. I was referring more to having to spend the final years of his life defending himself from accusations of plagiarism. 


Meh, It's not his fault that Newton was an insecure, petty, crybaby. 
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