Wednesday 2 November 2011

Mathematicians





The Greatest Mathematicians of All Time
ranked in approximate order of "greatness."
To qualify, the mathematician must be born before 1930 and his work must have
breadth, depth, and historical importance.
 


 
  1. Isaac Newton
  2. Archimedes
  3. Carl F. Gauss
  4. Leonhard Euler
  5. Bernhard Riemann
 
  1. Euclid
  2. Henri Poincaré
  3. Joseph-Louis Lagrange
  4. David Hilbert
  5. Gottfried W. Leibniz
 
  1. Alexandre Grothendieck
  2. Pierre de Fermat
  3. Niels Abel
  4. Évariste Galois
  5. John von Neumann

  1. Karl W. T. Weierstrass
  2. René Déscartes
  3. Carl G. J. Jacobi
  4. Srinivasa Ramanujan
  5. Brahmagupta
 
  1. Augustin Cauchy
  2. Peter G. L. Dirichlet
  3. Hermann K. H. Weyl
  4. Eudoxus of Cnidus
  5. Georg Cantor
 
  1. Muhammed al-Khowârizmi
  2. Arthur Cayley
  3. Emma Noether
  4. Pythagoras of Samos
  5. Leonardo `Fibonacci'




I've been looking at famous mathematicians for names of cakes for the contents of my menu. I only seem to be familiar with a few and so it may not work as a concept for the menu. I could also look into names of shapes or mathematical terms.

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