Who is the most original mathematician?

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>A general theory of duality for locally convex spaces had to be worked out: Schwartz and I [Dieudonné] had started its study for Fréchet spaces and their direct limits, but we had met a series of problems we could not solve. We therefore proposed them to Grothendieck, and the result turned out to exceed our most sanguine expectations.

>In less than a year, he had solved all our problems by very ingenious new constructions; then, with the techniques he had developed, he started to work on many other questions in functional analysis.

Source: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Grothendieck.html.

>>9129761
Who's that dumbfuck?

Fermat

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>>9129772
>Who's that dumbfuck?
>Not knowing who Mikhail Gromov is.
You must be an adult to post here.

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>>9129772
Goedel married a prostitute and showed that not all theorems can be proven.

>>9129778
* postulates.

>>9129761
There isn't a single one. How would you quantify it. But I'd say Paul Dirac and I base that on absolutely nothing. Or the fact that I like him. Same shit.

>>9129776
>Hey guys I'm so smart cause I know names of ppl!
Meanwhile I'm studying actual mathematics instead of reading about history of mathematics
Kill yourself
Inb4 I get tons of (you)s from triggered retards

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>>9129783
More original than Feynman?
Uhm, sweetie.

>>9129761
i saw the word original and thought i was on r9k

>>9129784
>instead of reading about history of mathematics
I guess his results are invalid now that he's old.

>>9129761
Nils Henrik Abel.
Invents the whole of group theory, which is the basis for rings and fields.
Dies at 25, young and obscure.

>>9129789
way to miss the point. I'm insulting /sci/'s obsession with people instead of subject, it's really big proof that most of you should be studying psychology (even though most of you would also shit talk psychology), as most are threads about IQs or admiring some super-genius scientist instead of the subject.

>>9129794
tl;dr you're off topic.

Theodore Kaczynski

>>9129893
>Theodore Kaczynski.
[*] Better know for other work.

>>9129761
Me.

>>9129761
Archimedes: he was doing calculus before it was cool.

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>>9129955

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>>9129761
>>9129768
Grothendieck for sure. A political radical with no formal background in mathematics; he famously couldn't solve a basic calculus problem. This man comes out of nowhere and shakes the world with some really out there stuff, then drops off the face of the earth 20 years later.

He also thought he was a literal prophet of God, and dressed like a wizard.

>>9129784
you study mathematics yet you do not know Gromov. Either you are a liar, or you think highschool algebra is mathematic. In any case, you are making a fool of yourself.

Shame.