Who is your favourite mathematican?

I like Ramanujan, Terence Tao and Paul Erdos. Who's your favourite mathematican?

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Note by Siddharth Kumar
8 years ago

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Dr. James Grime. Search for him on YouTube. This is a favorite curiosity.

Bob Krueger - 8 years ago

Gauss, Euler, Leibniz

Tiago Emilio Siller - 8 years ago

Ramanujan, Aryabhatta and David Herbert...Really respectable person...!

Souvik Paul - 8 years ago

Paul Erdos, Gauss, Terence Tao

Nicolae Sapoval - 8 years ago

According to me "Ramanujan" is ultimate hero.

Budha Chaitanya - 8 years ago

Ali Moustafa Mosharafa

Just and only Ramanujan

Ankit Chabarwal - 8 years ago

Jules Henri Poincaré. :)

John Marvin Macaraeg - 8 years ago

Ramanujan and Aryabhatt

Aditya Jain - 8 years ago

Im a huge fan of Sir Isaac Newton!

Tristan Harcourt - 7 years, 12 months ago

How come nobody has posted Galois yet?

W de Weijer - 7 years, 12 months ago

Newton , Fermat & Neper

Ahmed Taha - 7 years, 11 months ago

ramanujan, euler, perelman

huge wolverine - 6 years, 10 months ago

My hero was Euler but I'm more and more inclining towards the legendary Ramanujan these days.

Sanjeet Raria - 6 years, 10 months ago

Ramanujan

gopalgoel goel - 6 years, 9 months ago

Mine are Newton, Ramanujan, Euler and terence tao too!

Swapnil Das - 6 years, 2 months ago

ramanujam

gopalgoel goel - 6 years, 2 months ago

i like only one...........thats Ramanujan...............i like him becoz his life is amazing + he is first man to develop ancient maths and Improve the unknown techniques

however ..Euler is also great

Vamsi Krishna Appili - 8 years ago

Albert Einstein.

Prasetyo Henry Putra - 7 years, 12 months ago

Leonhard Euler

Jeremy Shuler - 7 years, 12 months ago
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