05-10-2014, 08:23 AM
(05-07-2014, 09:14 PM)SpaceAnJL Wrote: Nikola Tesla.
Visionary, genius, so ahead of his time that he was condemned as a nutter, because he was trying to describe things that had no vocabulary or common concept. He was mocked and exploited his entire life, but he claimed and shaped the future.
You live in England right? Then you should visit the Tesla Museum in Belgrade, it's a must see. I was there a couple of years ago ... that man was more like a prophet than a scientist. It amazes me how forward-looking he was. And it's kind of scary.
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As a mathematician in the making, I'd have to go with Gauß and Archimedes. Without those two guys, mathematics as we know it, wouldn't exist.
The BIG 3:
![[Image: 187px-Carl_Friedrich_Gauss.jpg]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss.jpg/187px-Carl_Friedrich_Gauss.jpg)
![[Image: 180px-Domenico-Fetti_Archimedes_1620.jpg]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Domenico-Fetti_Archimedes_1620.jpg/180px-Domenico-Fetti_Archimedes_1620.jpg)
![[Image: Tesla3.jpg]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Tesla3.jpg)
Man darf nicht das, was uns unwahrscheinlich und unnatürlich erscheint, mit dem verwechseln, was absolut unmöglich ist. - Carl Friedrich Gauß