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Originally Posted by CaptainBlack 
That looks a very questionable list if you ask me.
CB |
i agree! whoever made that list didn't know that much about math!
anyway, if you want to do a serious work, you should leave the oldies alone and take a look at more recent mathematicians. here's the top ones in my (algebraists) list:
Emmy Noether, Irving Kaplansky, Nathan Jacobson, Shimshon Amitsur
*, Efim Zelmanov, Jean Pierre Serre, Michael Artin, David Hilbert, Alexander Grothendieck, Henry Cartan, Samuel Eilenberg,
Michael Atiyah, Oscar Zariski, and finally the last and certainly the least (haha) ... Jason Bell (just kidding! this one is my supervisor and i think he might become big some day!)
* Amitsur is not very famous (why??) but i belive he's one of the smartest mathematicians ever!