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| Heliopolis |
 Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 3:24 am Post subject: Scientists by nationality |
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Has anyone noticed that most of the great scientists
mathematicians and engineers have come from only a few countries?
England: Newton, Flemming, Stephenson, Hawkins, Darwin, Turing etc
France: Descartes, Laplace, Fourier, Pasteur, Poisson, De Moivre etc
Greece: Pythagoras, Euclid, Archimedes, Hero ( actually a Greek Egyptian)
Persia (Iran): Avicenna, Khayyam, Tusi, Rhazes, Karaji etc
Germany and America can boast Einstein and Eddison respectively,
India a few astronomers and mathematicians but it seems that
English and French scientists invented modern science while Greek
and Persian ones built it up in the ancient and medieval period.
There are no great Chinese scientists or mathematicans, no great
Latin American or African ones either. |
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| raed |
| Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 4:00 am Post subject: Re: Scientists by nationality |
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| Heliopolis wrote: |
no great
Latin American or African ones either. |
What about Pharoahs?! they were africans !!
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| Heliopolis |
| Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 4:06 am Post subject: Re: Scientists by nationality |
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| Heliopolis wrote: |
no great
Latin American or African ones either. |
What about Pharoahs?! they were africans !! |
The Pharaohs were kings not scientists.
The Egyptians were good mathematicans and architects but
produced no great scientist of any note...at least, we do not
have his/her work. |
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| raed |
| Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 4:10 am Post subject: Re: Scientists by nationality |
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| Heliopolis wrote: |
no great
Latin American or African ones either. |
What about Pharoahs?! they were africans !! |
The Pharaohs were kings not scientists.
The Egyptians were good mathematicans and architects but
produced no great scientist of any note...at least, we do not
have his/her work. |
really ??
How could they built the pyramids and temples without mathematics ?
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| Selene |
| Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 7:33 am Post subject: Re: Scientists by nationality |
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| Heliopolis wrote: |
| raed wrote: |
| Heliopolis wrote: |
no great
Latin American or African ones either. |
What about Pharoahs?! they were africans !! |
The Pharaohs were kings not scientists.
The Egyptians were good mathematicans and architects but
produced no great scientist of any note...at least, we do not
have his/her work. |
really ??
How could they built the pyramids and temples without mathematics ? |
The pyramids and temples were built by intelligent beings from the Sirius star system, come on everybody knows that!
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| raed |
| Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 7:52 pm Post subject: Re: Scientists by nationality |
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| Selene wrote: |
| The pyramids and temples were built by intelligent beings from the Sirius star system, come on everybody knows that! |
Do you mean these creeatures lived in Egypt for 2 thousand years ,or they built all these temples and pyramids at one time ? 
And what about Imhotep ?
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| SuperNatendo |
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| serpicojr |
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| Germany can claim a ton of other people. For example, looking through mathematicians alone, I find the notable names Bessel, Cantor, Dirichlet, Eisenstein, Faltings, Gauss, Hilbert, Jacobi, Jordan, Klein, Kronecker, Leibniz, Minkowski, Möbius, Noether, Riemann, Weierstrass, Weyl, and Zorn. |
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| CShark |
| Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 9:43 am Post subject: Canadian Scientists |
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Banting and Best - Insulin
Alexander Graham Bell - Telephone
Sir Sanford Fleming - Standard Time
Gerhard Herzberg - Nobel prize in Chemistry
just to name a few. |
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| SuperNatendo |
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| Cat1981(England) |
| Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 10:32 am Post subject: |
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Copernicus, Marie Curie - Poland
Schrodinger - Austria
Tesla - Croatia
Alexander Graham Bell - Scotland
Bohr - Denmark
Boyle - Ireland
Kelvin - Northern Ireland
Alfred Nobel - Sweden
Galileo - Italy
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| JaneBennet |
| Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 11:16 am Post subject: |
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| serpicojr wrote: |
| Germany can claim a ton of other people. For example, looking through mathematicians alone, I find the notable names Bessel, Cantor, Dirichlet, Eisenstein, Faltings, Gauss, Hilbert, Jacobi, Jordan, Klein, Kronecker, Leibniz, Minkowski, Möbius, Noether, Riemann, Weierstrass, Weyl, and Zorn. |
You forgot Dedekind. He developed the idea of Dedekind cuts for constructing the real numbers as a complete extension of the field of rationals.
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| Chemboy |
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I'm amazed no one's brought up Euler...the guy was insane (in a very very good way)! He was Swiss.
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| raed |
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| JaneBennet wrote: |
| You forgot Dedekind. He developed the idea of Dedekind cuts for constructing the real numbers as an complete extension of the field of rationals. |
I cant stand looking at grammer mistake 
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| serpicojr |
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| JaneBennet wrote: |
| You forgot Dedekind. He developed the idea of Dedekind cuts for constructing the real numbers as an complete extension of the field of rationals. |
I deliberately omitted him. Many of his contributions were of interest purely to mathematicians, and so I figured most people here would have no idea who he was. But don't think I underestimate the value of his work. I'm an algebraic number theorist and, in many ways, view him as the father of my field!  |
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