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For the given title, it's surprising that no non-Europeans are mentioned or non-STEM for that matter. Some other contenders could be: 1. Su Song 2. Plato 3.
by ppsreejith 3y ago
For the given title, it's surprising that no non-Europeans are mentioned or non-STEM for that matter. Some other contenders could be:
1. Su Song
2. Plato
3. Gautama
4. Zhang Heng
5. Bhaskara(I/II)
6. Al Biruni
7. Da Vinci
8. Al Khwarizmi
- johndhi 3y agoDa Vinci isn't European?
- tgv 3y agoFrom the article: > William Shakespeare or Ludwig van Beethoven And the author explains why the others don't qualify, in his opinion. OTOH, he also mentions that Newton was autistic, without any bloody evidence, except the buzzfeed remark that he was reclusive.
- spondylosaurus 3y agoHow about Ramanujan? (A mathematician, obviously, but not European.)
- sdwr 3y agoHe falls more towards the idiot savant side for me. Not because he was necessarily dumb, but he channeled his intelligence in such useless ways. All raw intellect, and no cohesion, theme or application. I read his story as a cautionary tale, along with Euler, someone to be pitied. Plato, Da Vinci, Einstein tried to make sense of the bigger picture. They grounded their intellect in the real world.
- gmadsen 3y agothats because he was entirely self taught.. I'm sure if he had the upbringing of western high society like most famous european mathematicians, he would probably have more of the cohesion you are talking about
- sshine 3y agoSome of the smartest professors I’ve had, in terms of academic ranking, were millionaires for doing graph-based algo companies that got acquired, others were virgins who lived with their mom. Intelligence alone doesn’t seem like it automatically leads to success in all possible ways; some mathematicians just don’t care about wealth.
- karmakaze 3y agoCame to say the same. For those thinking that his works were "too far out there", they were merely ahead of our time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan > Of his thousands of results, all but a dozen or two have now been proven correct.
- inglor_cz 3y agoIt is somewhat depressing to realize that the disease that killed him would be easily treatable now. And we would have results of 40+ extra years of his productivity.
- woleium 3y agoNot just now, it was treatable then, he was just misdiagnosed
- throw0101c 3y ago> 2. Plato I'd lean more towards Aristotle.
- mst 3y agoI think also Archimedes, especially given he meets the polymath part of the author's approach.