/sci/ - Science & Math

You do know it's abbreviated BSc, right? Calling it a B.S. sorta makes it sound like, well, bullshit.

Anyway, I would say von Neumann cause that nigga was smart as all fuck and no matter what field he took on, he whooped some serious ass. A king of all trades pretty much.

>>5950321
I forgot: I'm at the end of my first year of studying electrical engineering, in the middle of exams right now.

i would consider myself the greatest scientist of all time because who else could overcome such great bias

my most recent notable achievement was a successful slowpoke combo thread as seen here
>>5950299

c'mon /sci/ step your game up

>>5950321

Yes, I do know that, but I've always called it a "B.S." in spoken language, so that's the way I type it. Both are correct.

Do political scientists count? If so, Margaret Thatcher.

Professor emeritus, nanotechnology.

George H.W. Bush
Phd, International Relations at Harvard

>>5950319
Tesla

M.S electrical engineering(electromechanics). Possibly ph.d in electromechanics.

>>5950328
Also, how can you be entering a PhD program without a masters?

>>5950319
>Define 'greatest' as you see fit. In short, I consider it to be the scientist who would have taken the longest to 'replace.'

Didn't someone else 'invent' Calculus more or less at the same time Newton did?

I mean this as a biology undergrad, just because I've seen it compared to Darwin and Wallace. Even this way I don't think I'd pick Darwin, because Wallace had an idea quite close to his, he just had less evidence, wasn't aware of the implications and went full retard at some parts ('human evolution can't be by chance, it must be the work of GAWD', etc.)

It's still pretty funny on a sad way to see Biologists arguing for until the 20-30s to agree on what Darwin had written down 60 years before, but still.

I won't answer your main question because I don't feel I can't really give a legitimate answer, just asking if you mean Newton is irreplaceable for the rest of his work or if the issue about calculus being discovered 'twice' has any hint of being plagiarism instead of a twin discovery.

>>5950334
>Possibly

You don't know whether you have a PhD?

>>5950343
Maybe he's, you know, in the process of getting it.

>>5950348

Then he, you know, doesn't have one.

>>5950337

A master's isn't required to enter a Ph.D. program

>>5950340

Newton did more than Calculus. Leibniz was the co-founder, and it is his notation that we all (as far as I know) use when first learning it. Newton's notion is only used by physicist, and only with time derivatives.

>>5950319
My dad.
He has always an anser to my question

background : kindergarten. Maybe middle-school later, I dunno yet.

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Srsly, aren't you bored of these shitty threads...
I so agree with >>5949228

>>5950340

OP here. I don't see it as a question that really has an answer, because science is so broad. Different people from different backgrounds will have different answers, and that's what I'm curious about.

Just take a shot at it; your answer will change over and over again in your life (and most likely lead you to decide there isn't really an answer), but I want to know what you think at this point.

>>5950319
Steinmetz
Undergrad EE

High School (in UNI for EE)

James Clerk Maxwell

Tesla, Einstein, Bohr and Gauss; not necessarily in this order.

Euler

B. S. Mathematics

Jacob Barnett

M.S Differential Equations

>>5950319
Gauss
Euler
Weierstrass
Lagrange

John Gabriel

Ph.D. in triple integrals

Chris Langan

B.A. in relativistic astrothermodynamics

>>5952498
Has that guy actually done anything or is he just another case of the media finding some guy who can sound smart without having any substance behind what he says.

Archimedes

high school equivalency exam
two-time college dropout

>>5950319

If you count Mathematics as a Science, I would say Euclid, his ideas dominated western thought for over 2000 years.

B.S. in Computer Science

Nikola Tesla
Our modern world would be so different without him.

BSc Computer Science
going for Ph.D. Computer Science soon/eventually.

Pic related.

For me now a day is Nikola Tesla , but I think that we can´t say that a cientist is the best cientist .

Jenner
Koch
Watson & Crick
Babbage
Newton
Maxwell
Euclid

MA Genetics
Start VetMB (a UK DVM equivalent) in october

Tesla

Pursuing Bsc Biochemistry and Computer science with a minor in mathematics.

Newton
Euclid
Euler
Gauss

>>5952678
Sorry, pursuing Bsc in applied mathematics and Bsc in statistics

Jacob Barnett

>>5952492
That's crazy! I got my master's in vectors, probably going for dat phd in parabolas

>>5952492
john gabriel is a nutjob

>>5950334
>>5950801
>>5952640
>>5952664
>>5952675
>Tesla
>a scientist
>the greatest scientist of all time

>>>/TheOatmeal/

>>5952680
they didn't teach you that "scientist" is not a plural

>>5952706
>what is a tie

Euler

computational mathematics BSc

>>5952705
>Tesla
>Not the greatest scientist

>>5952711

then in your case the correct answer to OP's question is "no-one"

>lrn2 superlative

>>5952718
both are legitimate responses
>lrn2 semantics

>>5952723
Oh god, unless English is not your first language you are clearly retarded.

lets see how that works. which looks correct to you

>Gauss, newton and whoever are the greatest scientist.

>Gauss, newton and whoever are the greatest scientists.

OP asked for the former.

>>5952755
Would you say no-one won 50m freestyle at the 2000 olympics?

Maxwell

Currently 2nd year BS electrical engineering

>>5952775
i would say no-one was the fastest. one being the operative word

if you asked me who was the fastest swimmer at that event (not "swimmers"), again i would say no one

>>5952850
Not him but you are a cretin. Both are, by any reasonable standard, perfectly legitimate interpretations. Enjoy your autism

>>5952850
>being this autistic

>>5952865
>>5952868
>it's hard being this wrong

>>5952880
>tfw people this retarded will one day breed

>>5952905
i doubt it

>>5952850

>>5952675
>Biochemistry
Not taking Bsc in Arithmancy

Alexandre Grothendieck

Phd in Algebraic Geometry and Geometric Langlands

Anyone with an open mind and humble enough to change his paradigm with faced with challenging evidence.

Problem with most scientists is they can't get off their high horse and elitism in the scientific community holds back many intelligent people who are unable to get their papers published due to bullshit shenanigans.

No one should be allowed to monopolize the field of science.

Omar Khayyam was a great scientist too.

>>5952655
Why does everyone put Tyson and Kaku on a pedestal like they are hot shit? Sure they can make great jokes and appeared on a few hit series on discovery but what is their actualy contribution? Have they discovered anything that altered our view on science? Did they upgrade any field of science or give us new theories?

The fanboy bullshit ruined hitchens and dawkins pretty bad.