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renaissance12
No! .. the best mathematician of all time is ARCHIMEDE from Italian Sicily like Frank Sinatra..
No doubt..
This is Fields medal..the elite of the world best mathematicians chose Archimedes.... no Gauss and no Newton..
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Gauss was great but he stood on the shoulders of 100 mathematicians..
Archimede was alone...( and we lost 50% of his books )
Math is logic and also metaphysic derives from logic...
I'm not going down this rabbit hole with you because this thread is about Michio Kaku, not Tao or Archimedes or Gauss, Michio Kaku is not a genius but a second rate mind :
It is melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to prove new theorems, to add to mathematics, and not to talk about what he or other mathematicians have done ... there is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than of them of men who make for men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second rate minds.
--A Mathematician's Apology G.H. Hardy
^Michio Kaku wrote popular expository works for the layman therefore due to his exposition he is de facto not a genius worth listening to -- case closed. Teutorigos and Colonol Frank Grimes are right.
Also, metaphysics is philosophy not science or math.