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Who are the four greatest mathematicians in the world?
The three famous mathematicians recognized in the world are Archimedes, Newton and Gauss. They have made great contributions to the development of science. In addition, great mathematicians include Euler, Lagrange and von Neumann.

1, Archimedes (287 BC-2 BC12)

Great ancient Greek philosopher, encyclopedic scientist, mathematician, physicist, mechanic, founder of statics and hydrostatics, enjoys the reputation of "father of mechanics". Archimedes once said, "Give me a fulcrum and I can pry up the whole earth."

2. isaac newton (164365438+1October 4th-65438+March 3rd10727)

Sir, president of the Royal Society, a famous British physicist, an encyclopedic "all-rounder" and author of Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and Optics. In mathematics, Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz shared the honor of developing calculus. He also proved the generalized binomial theorem and put forward Newton's method to approximate the zero point of function, which contributed to the study of power series.

3. Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (April 301777-February 23 1855)

Born in Brunswick, died in Gottingen. A famous mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geometer and geodesist in Germany. Enjoy the reputation of "prince of mathematics".

Gauss discovered the prime number distribution theorem and the least square method. Gaussian focused on the calculation of surfaces and curves, and successfully obtained Gaussian bell curve (normal distribution curve). Its function is named standard normal distribution (or Gaussian distribution), which is widely used in probability calculation.

4. leonhard euler (Leon Hadjura,1April 70715 ~1September 783 18).

Swiss mathematician and natural scientist. Euler is the most prolific mathematician in the history of mathematics. On average, he writes more than 800 pages of papers every year, and also writes a lot of textbooks on mechanics, analysis, geometry and variational methods. Introduction to Differential Analysis, Principles of Differential Calculus and Principles of Integral Calculus have all become classic works in the field of mathematics.

5. john von neumann (1903 65438+February 28th-65438+February 8th 0957)

Hungarian-born American mathematician, computer scientist and physicist is one of the most important mathematicians in the 20th century. Von Neumann, a Ph.D. student in mathematics at Budapest University, is one of the scientific generalists in the fields of modern computer, game theory, nuclear weapons, biochemical weapons and so on, and is called "the father of computer" and "the father of game theory" by later generations.

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Mathematicians are people who do creative work for the development of mathematics in the world and apply what they have learned to their work (especially solving mathematical problems). Mathematicians focus on numbers, data, sets, structures, spaces and changes. It is generally believed that the earliest mathematician who can be verified in history is Thales of ancient Greece.

China's modern world famous mathematicians include Hu Mingfu, Feng Zuxun, Jiang Lifu, Chen, Xiong Qinglai, Su, Xu Baoyu, Hua, Wu Wenjun, Chen Jingrun, Feng Kang, Zhou Weiliang, Xiao Yintang, Zhong Kailai and so on.

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