Who are the all time most important people in STEM?

>>8860573
Laplace. /thread

steve wolfram and nj wildberger

https://youtu.be/Wllc5gSc-N8

Bill Nye

He invented the scientific method and gravity

>Feynman on the same levelas von Neumann
kys fgt

>>8860649
this also Dawkins shouldn't be on the same level with that the meme black science men

>>8860573
Euler
>>8860649
this

>>8860649
newman might have had a lot of raw intellect... but feynman's discoveries are far more novel

yet another bitch about Bill Nye thread

saged and reported

>>8860573
Gibbs, Huckel, and Faraday never get enough love

>>8860649
It goes with the theme of the chart though:
>Euler and Gauss being on the same level as Newton
>DGT on the same level as Dawkins
>Nye on the same level as nothing

>>8860669

Euler, indeed

why is NGT and Dawkins on the same level so bad? I think that's pretty spot on.

>>8860671
fucking moron

>>8860649
are you saying thats insulting to Feynman to be on the same level as vN, or the other way around?

>>8860782
it's insulting to von Neumann ofc

>>8860816
insult to Feynman more like

Nassim taleb

>>8860573
>No Grothendieck in the Newton/Gauss/Euler level
I knew /sci/ was 4 plebs only.

>>8860573
The mindless masses who drive the economy to the levels that are required to support the lifestyles and careers of full-time academics and scientists.

>>8860816
Did von Neumann even win a nobel? He's kinda a nobody

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>>8862823
it's funny because it's true

t. guy who thinks it's our duty to serve the less privileged

>>8862839

that's insane dude. He was probably one of the greatest minds in history.

>>8862855
nice meme

>>8860573

BILL
BILL
BILL
BILL

Thanks /sci/ for turning me onto him, im learning so much.

>>8862839
Mathematicians can't win nobel prizes (unless they do applied math)

>>8862859

scientists of many fields should be able to find something in this list that is familiar and important:

Abelian von Neumann algebra
Affiliated operator
Amenable group
Arithmetic logic unit
Artificial viscosity
Axiom of regularity
Axiom of limitation of size
Backward induction
Blast wave (fluid dynamics)
Bounded set (topological vector space)
Carry-save adder
Cellular automata
Class (set theory)
Computer virus
Commutation theorem
Continuous geometry
Coupling constants
Decoherence theory (Quantum mechanics)
Density matrix
Direct integral
Doubly stochastic matrix
Duality Theorem
Durbin–Watson statistic
EDVAC
Ergodic theory
explosive lenses
Game theory
Hilbert's fifth problem
Hyperfinite type II factor
Inner model
Inner model theory
Interior point method
Lattice theory
Lifting theory
Merge sort
Middle-square method
Minimax theorem
Monte Carlo method
Mutual assured destruction
Normal-form game
Operation Greenhouse
Operator theory
Pointless topology
Polarization identity
Pseudorandomness
Pseudorandom number generator
Quantum mutual information
Quantum statistical mechanics
Radiation implosion
Rank ring
Self-replication
Software whitening
Spectral theory
Standard probability space
Stochastic computing
Stone–von Neumann theorem
Subfactor
Ultrastrong topology
Von Neumann algebra
Von Neumann architecture
Von Neumann bicommutant theorem
Von Neumann cardinal assignment
Von Neumann cellular automaton
Von Neumann interpretation
Von Neumann measurement scheme
Von Neumann Ordinals
Von Neumann universal constructor
Von Neumann entropy
Von Neumann Equation
Von Neumann neighborhood
Von Neumann paradox
Von Neumann regular ring
Von Neumann–Bernays–Gödel set theory
Von Neumann universe
Von Neumann conjecture
Von Neumann's inequality
Von Neumann's trace inequality
Von Neumann stability analysis
Von Neumann extractor
Von Neumann ergodic theorem
Von Neumann–Morgenstern utility theorem
ZND detonation model

>>8860671
I want the popsci children to go away

Oiler and GauB

>>8860573
If we're talking about STEM in general, in terms of overall impact across all disciplines, it has to be Euler and it's not even close

Laplace maybe a close second

Leibniz.

>>8860573
Cauchy
Lagrange
Laplace
Lavoisier
Galois
Poincare
Fermat

the messiah

Bill Nye the I only have a BS in Mechanical Engineering and no Masters or even took the PE exam Guy

>>8862890
true, you're using many of those just by being able to read the list (being on a computer)

>>8860576
Laplace was a fraud, he stole the Laplace Transform from Euler and slapped his name over it.

Euler spent a significant amount of time in the mid-18th century working on differential equations. One of his many noteworthy contributions in this field was the idea of transforming a function X(x)X(x) into a new function zz via the equation

z=∫e^ax X(x) * d(x)

which looks fairly similar to the modern Laplace transform, only with an indefinite rather than a definite integral. In a 1753 paper (entitled Methodus aequationes differentiales altiorum graduum integrandi ulterius promota), Euler used methods based on this transform to give a systematic method of solving second order linear differential equations. Later in his career, he further clarified the method and introduced the definite integral form.

In particular, this expression appeared in Euler’s 1768 Institutiones Calculi Integralis, vol. II

tl;dr - Fuck Laplace

>>8860573
How about Maxwell? Where is Maxwell? Why nobody remembers Maxwell?

>>8862859
In an age where people think it's no longer possible to be a renaissance man, von Neumann was just that.

>>8863562
von Neumann was hardly a renaissance man. A renaissance mathematician, maybe.

He did work in a few very tightly related fields (math/physics/the infancy of CS) and the only noteworthy thing he did outside of that was remember a ton of historical bullshit because of his meme memory.

>>8863537

I'm not even a mathematician or a physicist (I'm a chemist) and many of those are totally relevant to me.

Cummutation theorem
Coupling constants
Decoherence theory
Density matrix
Ergodic theory
Monte Carlo method
Operator theory
Spectral theory

There are probably a bunch of others that are important to me, but I don't even know it.

Not only did he make major contributions to almost every field of science, but he was a renaissance man, with extensive knowledge of history and other fields as well.

>>8862839
>>8862878

Von Neumann just goes to show that the Nobel is not the be all and end all of scientific achievement that brainlets make it out to be:

"When asked why the Hungary of his generation had produced so many geniuses, Wigner, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963, replied that von Neumann was the only genius."

>>8863551
redpill me on maxwell, anon. I don't feel like Googling. His name sounds familiar...

>>8864685
electromagnets, how do they work?

>>8864742
I'm not sure. I am a math major and only deal with the abstract.

>>8864752
did you not learn them when you learned differential forms?

>>8864742
A current induces a magnetic field.

>>8864817
surely you mean magnetic spectrum?

>>8864742
On a spectrum

>>8863551
of course he's a big name but the thread is about "STEM" not just EE/physics

also if you say maxwell you have to say lenz, lorentz, faraday, gauss first, so really why not just say gauss and be done with it.