Euler is the greatest mathematician ever, in my opinion (Gauss, Archimedes, & Newton are up there too)https://twitter.com/theeconomist/status/763165084533268480 …
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Steven Strogatz Retweeted The Economist
Euler is the greatest mathematician ever, in my opinion (Gauss, Archimedes, & Newton are up there too)https://twitter.com/theeconomist/status/763165084533268480 …
Steven Strogatz added,
Gauss disagreed with you. He awarded top honors unequivocally to Newton. And Gauss didn't defer to many people.
And if we include mathematical physics as part of math, I agree that Newton is (possibly) greater than Euler.
But for contributions to pure math, I feel Euler and Gauss far outshine Newton.
Gauss evidently thought he would have been able to do anything Euler had done. But he felt quite differently about Newton.
What most impressed Gauss about Newton was not the scope of his work, but the quality of the thought that went into it.
It took a lot to inspire awe in Gauss, but Newton's thinking did the trick. And Newton felt the same way about Archimedes.
Indeed, there's pretty clear evidence that Newton believed himself merely to be rediscovering lost results of Archimedes.
But Euler certainly had the most profound influence on his successors. Which really matters:http://bit.ly/1X1QmZy
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