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Who's your favorite contemporary mathematician? Based on whatever; personality,


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Who's your favorite contemporary mathematician? Based on whatever; personality, accomplishments, etc. By contemporary I'm looking at mid 20th century onwards.
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>>7653612
John Conway reminds me of Jared Harris as Professor Moriarty.
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>>7653612
Edward Witten
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Newton da Costa.
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>>7653612
Turing, Godel, Church. In that order. I like Conway cause he is a grumpy old man.
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Terence Tao
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>>7653612
I like this guys personality. I have no clue what he did or the implications of it but he talks with a very realistic attitude and knows how to manage what he's got.
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>>7654132
>grumpy old man
lol I got exactly that impression from reading his Complex Analysis book.
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>>7654182
That's a different Conway I think
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David Nash because good af movie senpai, desu
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>>7654446
Holy shit I assumed it was the John Conway. I was so disappointed at how bad that complex analysis textbook was.
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>>7653612
Kolmogorov.
Grothendiek.
Tao.
Villani.
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>>7654567
And to analysts, that -is- the John Conway.
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>>7654483

You mean the late John Nash?
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