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There is at least one more famous mathematician: Isaac Newton. But that proves your point. How many average people could identify anyone else, even Euclid?
by harshreality 15y ago
There is at least one more famous mathematician: Isaac Newton. But that proves your point. How many average people could identify anyone else, even Euclid?
- Someone 15y agoNewton a famous mathematician? I know he was, but the general public will only know him as a physicist. I guess most who do know him as a mathematician also know Leibniz. As a mathematician, Pythagoras probably is way better known than Newton.
- scott_s 15y agoNewton is a famous mathematician in the same way that Jesus is a famous Jew.
- ktizo 15y agoSurely most everybody who has been to high school has at the very least heard of calculus? Also, it strongly depends on where in the world you ask, many Londoners will have heard of Christopher Wren for instance. And loads of people know of classical mathematicians such as Archimedes and Da Vinci. Also you get the crossovers such as people like Ada Lovelace, who will be known to many fans of Byron.
- msg 15y agoGauss? Pascal? Descartes? Russell? Fermat? Knuth? You probably need to take a survey.