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So given any vector field V(x, y, z) in three dimensional space, is it possible to create an electric field that is described by V. Someone told me that according to Helmholtz theorem, a vector field (with certain constrains) can be expressed as a sum of a curless field and a divergenceless...

Well what I'm trying to say is that their works seem to be irrelevant to a nowaday math major. You focus more on the "pure math", which includes more recent math like topology and analysis. Sure Gauss, Euler, and Newton do pop out a lot, but usually in the "applied math" courses, which are to...

So I think everyone agrees that on the top of the list are Gauss, Euler, Newton, and so on. Yet it seems like as you get higher in mathematics, those names disappear. I mean, I'm an undergrad going for a math degree and I'm taking classes like Topology and Analysis, which came way later. All the...