/sci/ - Science & Math

The Uchiha Itachi of mathematics.

>>15853953
https://archive.org/details/117771763_002/page/n17/mode/2up

werke

I just finished the entire book yesterday, it was too trivial for me.

>choose axioms based on your intuition
>choose logical rules based on your intuition
>get results
>think you've done something significant or discovered some truth

math is so fucking gay

>The mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss was reported to have commented that if this formula was not immediately apparent to a student upon being told it, that student would never become a first-class mathematician.

Was Gauss right?

Is /sci/ interested in the history of science and mathematics?
Do you enjoy reading about the history of past scientific discoveries? Do you enjoy reading the biographies of scientists and mathematicians?
Which books have you read?
Have you read any classics which were once relevant to scientists/Mathematicians? Like Euclid's Elements

Prince of Mathematics

>scribbles the FFT algorithm in 19th century latin like it's no big deal, 150 years before the algorithm gets discoverd again.

Literally how does a farmer raised on goat milk and candle light become this genius? how?

he really didn't accomplish much in mathematics

its genreally considered that Carl Gauss, Leonhard Euler and Benjamin Banneker are the 3 greatest mathematicians in history and Newton is slightly below them

why is this?

i often see many post this guy as being one of the top 3 mathematicians ever or the best ever in many threads

but what did he exactly do?

Gauss eventually had conflicts with his sons. He did not want any of his sons to enter mathematics or science for "fear of lowering the family name", as he believed none of them would surpass his own achievements.[48] Gauss wanted Eugene to become a lawyer, but Eugene wanted to study languages. They had an argument over a party Eugene held, which Gauss refused to pay for. The son left in anger and, in about 1832, emigrated to the United States, where he was quite successful. While working for the American Fur Company in the Midwest, he learned the Sioux language. Later, he moved to Missouri and became a successful businessman. Wilhelm also moved to America in 1837 and settled in Missouri, starting as a farmer and later becoming wealthy in the shoe business in St. Louis. It took many years for Eugene's success to counteract his reputation among Gauss's friends and colleagues. See also the letter from Robert Gauss to Felix Klein on 3 September 1912.

Over the past few days, I have been studying Gauss' life and became surprised on that he admired Newton to such a great extent.

In his youth, he ardently read the works of Euler, Lagrange and ofcourse Newton but one man strangely caught his interest above all, and that was none other than the Englishman.

Gauss himself once claimed that he read Euler for the rich substance but Newton for the rigor and "style". And indeed, Newton had a well-reputed (or ill-reputed) "synthetic" style through which he obscured and erased completely anything that might have given the reader an idea on how he reached the proof. (His Principia was criticized by his contemporaries on this point).

So thus it is very clear where Gauss got his tendency to be, in Abel's own words, "like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand".

Gauss even mastered English so that he could gain further insight onto the life of Newton, and his library in later years became replete with English literature.

And not only that, he even applied the Latin adjective "summus" (which means greatest) to nobody but Newton, and even once said that "Newton was the master of all masters!".

at math?

i read somewhere that Gauss admired Newton more so than any other intellectual figure?

why was this?

MOTHERFUCKING GAUSS IN THE HOUSE

>>9687952
physics pleb

or are they more historical artifacts today

There's obviously the idea of reading them for historical importance

but do they have any knowledge that might be useful to modern day scholars

reading Newton's Principia or the Gauss Disquisitiones arithmeticae, Darwin's On the Origin of Species

or are all these great works of outdated today

>Abel sent a paper on the unsolvability of the quintic equation to Carl Friedrich Gauss, who proceeded to discard without a glance what he believed to be the worthless work of a crank.
Lol what a fucking brainlet

What is the bare minimum of topics needed to be covered to develop a well-rounded mathematical maturity?

The greatest scientists and mathematicians the world has ever seen didn't need "degrees" or "licenses" to do their jobs and change the world. Stop allowing statists and globalist to hold you down.

What /sci thinks of this guy?

in your opinion?

lol...how does this not make them Brainlets

Newton of course was a religious freak

but even the great Carl Gauss believed in this retarded fairy sh*t


Gauss declared he firmly believed in the afterlife, and saw spirituality as something essentially important for human beings.[31] He was quoted stating: "The world would be nonsense, the whole creation an absurdity without immortality,"[32] and for this statement he was severely criticized by the atheist Eugen Dühring who judged him as a narrow superstitious man.[33]

Though he was not a church-goer,[34] Gauss strongly upheld religious tolerance, believing "that one is not justified in disturbing another's religious belief, in which they find consolation for earthly sorrows in time of trouble."[2] When his son Eugene announced that he wanted to become a Christian missionary, Gauss approved of this, saying that regardless of the problems within religious organizations, missionary work was "a highly honorable" task.[35]

Euler, Cauchy, Godel were also christian/religious nutbags


I am a mediocre mathematician and I am already of a greater intellect than these legends for the simple fact that I don't believe in God