Post a Great Scientist or Mathematician

[Gospodine]

One of the more underrated scientists of the 20th century, he gave us the alternating current system,

Tesla gave us the 20th century, period. Without him, we'd be relying on Edison's DC bullshit which needs a powerplant every square mile.

Even today we can't replicate half of his most advanced experiments like Ball Lighting or powering 200 lightbulbs wirelessly from 26 miles away.

Underrated is an understatement when it comes to that man.

The world at the time needed marketable concepts for big business to the adopt that could generate profit; that's the only reason why men like Edison were filthy rich and why Tesla died dirt poor.

Tesla proposed numerous free energy systems back then, that were just as threatening to big business monopolies as they are now.

[Stefan]

János Bolyai

János Bolyai (pronounced [ˈjaː.noʃ ˈboː.jɒ.i]) (December 15, 1802 – January 27, 1860) was a Hungarian mathematician, known for his work in non-Euclidean geometry.



He became so obsessed with Euclid's parallel postulate that his father wrote to him: "For God's sake, I beseech you, give it up. Fear it no less than sensual passions because it too may take all your time and deprive you of your health, peace of mind and happiness in life". János, however, persisted in his quest and eventually came to the conclusion that the postulate is independent of the other axioms of geometry and that different consistent geometries can be constructed on its negation.
He wrote to his father: "Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe".[2]
Between 1820 and 1823 he prepared a treatise on a complete system of non-Euclidean geometry. Bolyai's work was published in 1832 as an appendix to a mathematics textbook by his father.
Gauss, on reading the Appendix, wrote to a friend saying "I regard this young geometer Bolyai as a genius of the first order". In 1848 Bolyai discovered that Lobachevsky had published a similar piece of work in 1829. Though Lobachevsky published his work a few years earlier than Bolyai, it contained only hyperbolic geometry. Bolyai and Lobachevsky did not know each other or each other's works.
In addition to his work in geometry, Bolyai developed a rigorous geometric concept of complex numbers as ordered pairs of real numbers. Although he never published more than the 24 pages of the Appendix, he left more than 20,000 pages of mathematical manuscripts when he died. These can now be found in the Bolyai-Teleki library in Târgu Mureş, where Bolyai died.

[mvbeleg]

John Von Neumann



Often regarded as the `greatest' mathematician (and mind) of the twentieth century by contemporary mathematicians.


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An interesting clip.

[Balmung]

Tesla gave us the 20th century, period. Without him, we'd be relying on Edison's DC bullshit which needs a powerplant every square mile.

Even today we can't replicate half of his most advanced experiments like Ball Lighting or powering 200 lightbulbs wirelessly from 26 miles away.

Underrated is an understatement when it comes to that man.

The world at the time needed marketable concepts for big business to the adopt that could generate profit; that's the only reason why men like Edison were filthy rich and why Tesla died dirt poor.

Tesla proposed numerous free energy systems back then, that were just as threatening to big business monopolies as they are now.

Forget Edison. Without Faraday neither one of them would have existed. He got the whole ball rolling for the generation & production of electricity. His theories & methods of generating it are still the primary source today. Everyone always mentions Edison & Tesla, some even overcrediting them a lot but it was Faraday's efforts that established the basis for the technology and its practical use. Neither of them should ever be credited over Faraday. As both builded on his work.

[Permafrost]

Richard Dedeking, known, inter alia, for the Dedekind cut.

Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind (October 6, 1831 – February 12, 1916) was a German mathematician who made important contributions to abstract algebra (particularly ring theory), algebraic number theory and the foundations of the real numbers.

[silver_surfer]

Peter Higgs