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If you count him as unknown then you might as well count just about every other Mathematician other than Newton as an unknown as well.
by travisjeffery 17y ago
If you count him as unknown then you might as well count just about every other Mathematician other than Newton as an unknown as well.
- yummyfajitas 17y agoI've discovered that John Nash ("that beautiful mind guy") is probably about as well known as Newton. So is "that Numbers guy" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numb3rs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numb3rs).
- travisjeffery 17y agoNo. People don't call Newton: "That gravity guy", people know Newton's name. Every time I go to talk to a non-Mathematician about John Nash and say his name they go: "Who?", me: "The Mathematician from A Beautiful Mind." them: "Oh." Newton is Newton and in terms of popularity, John Nash; "The Beautiful Mind guy" isn't even in his league.
- eru 17y agoAnd some of the Greeks.
- numbchuckskills 17y agoagreed..I recall first studying his work in highschool math. and that was in Canada.
- ciupicri 17y agoNot really. Most people know Newton as a physicist, but any pupil knows about Pythagoras. Also, any high school pupil that studies science (not human arts) knows about (Joseph Louis) Lagrange.