Was Albert Einstein the Best Mathematician?

[Air]

I vote other because it would include all of the above, plus all others. IMO

Same. Also, some other great mathematician were forgotten (Euler, Riemann, Archimedes, Fermat, Fibonacci etc). Some may have not created the best theories but the fact that they contributed to mathematics is something to be proud of.

 

[Schrodinger's Dog]

Same. Also, some other great mathematician were forgotten (Euler, Riemann, Archimedes, Fermat, Fibonacci etc). Some may have not created the best theories but the fact that they contributed to mathematics is something to be proud of.

Maybe Renes Descartes should be up there then.

 

[doc.madani]

Gauss for me.

 

[DavidWhitbeck]

Euler, Gauss, Ramanujan, Hardy, Hamilton (all of them), Galois, Riemann, Hilbert, Weierstrass, Euclid, Poincare etc etc take your pick there are many great mathematicians that don't appear in this poll.

I have no idea why the poll has a few of the greatest physicists instead!

 

[Howers]

Didn't Einstein enlist the help of a mathametician when developing his theories? And wasn't his wife always doing the math?

I don't think he was a mathametician at all. Brilliant physicist, nonetheless.

Seeing as Gauss is practically the only mathametician on the list... there is little choice but to vote him.