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By the time Erdos started working, all those low hanging fruit was picked. Euler also didn't discover e. g. pi, it's just that his notation was universally adop
by The_Colonel 3y ago
By the time Erdos started working, all those low hanging fruit was picked. Euler also didn't discover e. g. pi, it's just that his notation was universally adopted. I'm not trying to diminish his contributions, he's still possibly GOAT, just that this method of comparison is necessarily misleading.
- lr1970 3y agoEuler equation e^(ix) = cos(x) + i*sin(x) alone is worth more than Erdos did in his entire life. Euler laid foundations for complex numbers analysis. His other contributions have been already covered in this thread.