Thread 16736175

Who is your favorite mathematician and why? I'll start:

> Did drugs

> Could do crazy mental calculations at a very young age

> Solved problems almost every hour of the day

> Lived an unconventional lifestyle and had a very distinct and unique personality

> Obsessively thought about math

> Research mainly focused on problem solving over theoretical math

> Huge collaboration web

> Made a name for himself early on for an elegant elementary proof of the prime number theorem at age 19(?)

> Died at a graph theory conference

curious what others will say...

Bernhard Riemann

The Prime numbers a.k.a. zeta function paper is just the biggest mindfuck.
And he was very good otherwise also.

>>16736175 (OP)
I guess it's kind of generic, but I simply can't look past Grothendieck.
Of alive mathematicians, I like Beilinson and Gromov, because they're both monsters of various different areas, and seem to have an almost incomprehensible way of thinking.

>>16736175 (OP)
not just any drugs, he did amphetamine. and after winning a bet on whether he can stop he said "you have slowed progress of mathematics by a month"

has to be Theodore John Kaczynski.

>>16736175 (OP)
Jon Folkman. Every picture has been meticulously scrubbed from the internet. If you look, you'll find a single picture. Then if you look to verify it, you'll find out it's not him.

>>16736829
Pussy bitch physiognomy.

>>16736884
Wtf? Dude looks like Superman.

I like Ramanujan

>>16737221
sadly he was a pedo

>>16738218
Under 18 pedo or under 13 pedo

>>16737221
sadly he was fat

>>16736175 (OP)
mushrooms

>>16738228
under 13, 10 years when he married her, which was arranged by his mother, who chose her when she was 9, yes his mother chose the 9 year old to be married to her son

bet you faggots don't even duel

>>16738986
touche

Grothendieck. People like Erdos and Ramanujan were just pencil pushers, they had no cosmic vision of mathematics like Grothendieck had, sullying their minds with childish, banal number problems. Grothendieck was operating on a different plane of reality

>>16736175 (OP)
I've always respected the English self-educated types: Boole, Heaviside, Green (of Green's functions fame) etc. Else >>16736189 Riemann is top tier.

>>16736175 (OP)
Cedric Villani for the great book he made and his fashion sense.

Alexis Clairaut for this theorem in calculus.

>>16741108
Isn't that just a corollary of Fubini's theorem?

>>16741108
>>16741183
No. Fubini's theorem involves changing the order
of integration as long as the integrand is
continuous over some region. This is also well
known in measure theory. Clairaut's theorem
involves continuity but for partial derivatives.

>>16736774
>endure surgery for brain cancer
>despair at the unavoidable brain damage that comes with your condition and treatment
>erdos and his buddy are waiting to dunk on you the moment you regain consciousness
>repeatedly challenge you while you're still in the hospital
>this is played off as "helping"
No wonder he fucking killed himself.

>>16737173
No he looks like a pussy bitch. Like someone who has never been punched.