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A human who hunts truths so absolute they'd survive the heat death of the universe.
means A person who studies or works professionally in mathematics — the abstract science of numbers, structures, shapes, and patterns.
from From Greek mathēmatikos, 'fond of learning,' which traces back to the verb manthanein, 'to learn.' The root noun mathēma simply meant 'that which is learned' — knowledge itself. So a mathematician was once, quite literally, just 'one who learns,' before the word narrowed to those who learn the most relentless subject of all. It reached English through Latin mathematicus and Old French, arriving by the late Middle Ages.
- peak age
- Most do best work before turning thirty
- top prize
- Fields Medal bars winners over forty
- fatal proof
- Galois wrote group theory before a deadly duel
- unproven empire
- Most theorems remain unproven, possibly forever
- coffee engine
- A theorem is coffee turned into proof
euclid — ancient greek mathematician who wrote the elements, the most influential math textbook for over 2000 years
isaac newton — english mathematician who invented calculus and formulated the laws of motion and gravity in the 1680s
carl friedrich gauss — german mathematician of the 1800s who made foundational contributions to number theory, statistics, and algebra
leonhard euler — swiss mathematician who published over 800 papers and solved the seven bridges of königsberg problem in 1735