calculus.

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i need to do a paper on a mathematician directly linked with calculus. thing is, my teacher is grading on how "interesting" and "intriguing" it is.

do you guys know of an eccentric mathematician?

[soraanaam]

my teacher looked exactly like the doc from back to the future and he was obsessed with "i love lucy" he had posters of her everywhere

[dino might]

John Forbes Nash Jr. hes the guy the movie, a beautiful mind, was about, professor at princeton who was so smart with math he went schizophrenic and then used math to tell reality from fiction, really crazy shit, would make a pretty interesting paper

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my teacher looked exactly like the doc from back to the future and he was obsessed with "i love lucy" he had posters of her everywhere

unless he liked calculating the surface area of a horses penis while having it fuck him, im not really interested.

[red]

John Forbes Nash Jr. hes the guy the movie, a beautiful mind, was about, professor at princeton who was so smart with math he went schizophrenic and then used math to tell reality from fiction, really crazy shit, would make a pretty interesting paper

is quickly scanned his wiki, and found him to be directly linked with only geometry. do you think i can pass him off as a calculus theorist?

+rep for the suggestion.

[naffbdp]

Hey, I'm not psychiatrist, but I don't believe people become schizophrenic from being math geniuses.

[dino might]

is quickly scanned his wiki, and found him to be directly linked with only geometry. do you think i can pass him off as a calculus theorist?

+rep for the suggestion.

shit, thats a point i really shouldve thought about considering the title of this thread...

i dont know about all his involvement in "game theory", there might be some to do with calculus with that, not sure though, im horrible with math as it is. he may not work

newton and leibniz are both credited with co-creating calculus indepently, maybe you could write about the both of them like that? that could be pretty interesting

Hey, I'm not psychiatrist, but I don't believe people become schizophrenic from being math geniuses.

whatever..

[red]

newton and leibniz are both credited with co-creating calculus indepently, maybe you could write about the both of them like that? that could be pretty interesting

nah. teacher wants us to focus on one theorist, and wants us to focus on the life of that theorist. its supposed to be a "fun" paper.

[backinthetrees]

damn red.. i really dont know anyway or how anyone related to calculus cld be interesting.. then again, my calculus prof last sem was this chinese dude who spoke really funny.

[backinthetrees]

or.... i went for some talk in church yesterday, and the speaker mentioned something about this fella who could use mathematics to explain the existence of god or smth like so..

and.. there is also another dude who has come up with a formula to scan retinas and identify people with it, they use it in the UAE airport to look for people travelling illegally.. its different from the usual retina scan we hear about, i dont know how. hahah.. just saw that on nat geo.

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damn red.. i really dont know anyway or how anyone related to calculus cld be interesting.. then again, my calculus prof last sem was this chinese dude who spoke really funny.

well nikola tesla was quite a character. but again, hes a physicist.

oh. and newton was already taken, so....

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any of them into coprophilia? (3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510)

[Guest DUM]

Canibus.

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[Guest DUM]

any of them into coprophilia? (3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510)

See, my suggestion was perfect.

"But you ain't got the skills to eat a nigga's ass like me" - Bis.

[doczein]

Paul Erdos, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdos, was a Hungarian mathematician who came to the U.S. He was a pretty eccentric dude. he used to show up at the doors of fellow mathematicians in the middle of the night to work on theorems. check him out.

[red]

Paul Erdos, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdos, was a Hungarian mathematician who came to the U.S. He was a pretty eccentric dude. he used to show up at the doors of fellow mathematicians in the middle of the night to work on theorems. check him out.

thanks.

ran out of rep for the day.

[LaiShin]

somehow, this is in my bookmark...

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jamesdow/Tech/mathmen.htm

[doczein]

thanks.

ran out of rep for the day.

here's an interesting paragraph in the article:

Other idiosyncratic elements of Erdős' vocabulary include: children were referred to as "epsilons" (because in mathematics (particularly calculus), an arbitrary (or nearly so) small positive quantity is commonly denoted ε); women were "bosses"; men were "slaves"; people who stopped doing math had "died"; people who died had "left"; alcoholic drinks were "poison"; music was "noise"; people who had married were "captured"; people who had divorced were "liberated" and to give a mathematical lecture was "to preach". Also, all countries which he thought failed to provide freedom to individuals as long as they did no harm to anyone else were classified as imperialist and given a name that began with a lowercase letter. For example, the U.S. was "samland" (after Uncle Sam), the Soviet Union was "joedom" (after Joseph Stalin), and Israel was "israel". For his epitaph he suggested, "I've finally stopped getting dumber." (Hungarian: "Végre nem butulok tovább"). (Hoffman 1998)

[ProfMonnitoff]

Kurt Goedel is quite interesting... he ended up basically starving himself to death because he was so paranoid that he thought someone was out to poison him.

He's only vaguely related to calculus, but his completeness theorem proved that first-order calculus is complete.

My current math teacher was taught by Goedel when he still taught at the university in Vienna, and there are a bunch of crazy stories about him that you could probably dig up.