how ****** would humankind be

[everman]

Originally posted by: sandorski
How ****** would Microsoft be without his sister Eula? :Q

I never read those things.

 

[JEDI]

Originally posted by: IAteYourMother
I was just thinking... Euler pretty much made math. So hard to believe that so much of what we do wouldn't be so if it weren't for one guy.

Edited to remove profanity from thread title. Please don't put curse words in thread title.

AnandTech Senior Moderator
Compuwiz1

sigh.. 7k posts, and no linky?

who/what did Euler do exactly?

 

[DangerAardvark]

Originally posted by: JEDI

Originally posted by: IAteYourMother
I was just thinking... Euler pretty much made math. So hard to believe that so much of what we do wouldn't be so if it weren't for one guy.

Edited to remove profanity from thread title. Please don't put curse words in thread title.

AnandTech Senior Moderator
Compuwiz1

sigh.. 7k posts, and no linky?

who/what did Euler do exactly?

Euler invented canola eul.

 

[IAteYourMother]

Originally posted by: JEDI

Originally posted by: IAteYourMother
I was just thinking... Euler pretty much made math. So hard to believe that so much of what we do wouldn't be so if it weren't for one guy.

Edited to remove profanity from thread title. Please don't put curse words in thread title.

AnandTech Senior Moderator
Compuwiz1

sigh.. 7k posts, and no linky?

who/what did Euler do exactly?

People should know who Euler is.

 

[alkemyst]

we'd be much more ahead if 'discoveries' weren't wiped out along with their creators with each change of rulership to keep their subjects dumb.

 

[LordMorpheus]

not all that screwed, actually.

Euler did great things, not doubt, but the greeks were not as big math geniuses as everyone seems to think. They accomplished a lot of things with geometry and logical proofs, but as for actual calculation their awful notation made all but the simplest equations nightmares to actually work.

There would have been someone else who would have come up with his geometric proofs between his time and Liebniz and Newton's time, and we wouldn't be any better or worse off than we are now.

 

[Saint Michael]

Originally posted by: LordMorpheus
not all that screwed, actually.

Euler did great things, not doubt, but the greeks were not as big math geniuses as everyone seems to think. They accomplished a lot of things with geometry and logical proofs, but as for actual calculation their awful notation made all but the simplest equations nightmares to actually work.

There would have been someone else who would have come up with his geometric proofs between his time and Liebniz and Newton's time, and we wouldn't be any better or worse off than we are now.

Uh, Euler wasn't Greek...

 

[IAteYourMother]

Originally posted by: LordMorpheus
not all that screwed, actually.

Euler did great things, not doubt, but the greeks were not as big math geniuses as everyone seems to think. They accomplished a lot of things with geometry and logical proofs, but as for actual calculation their awful notation made all but the simplest equations nightmares to actually work.

There would have been someone else who would have come up with his geometric proofs between his time and Liebniz and Newton's time, and we wouldn't be any better or worse off than we are now.

the timeline doesn't make sense... Euler came after Newton.

 

[nineball9]

Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
Euler invented canola eul.

lol! I enjoy math a lot and know a bit about Euler, but I still have a difficult time reading Euler's name and thinking "oiler" and not "youler". Perhaps it's because of the similarity in spelling to Euclid.

 

[Saint Michael]

Originally posted by: nineball9

Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
Euler invented canola eul.

lol! I enjoy math a lot and know a bit about Euler, but I still have a difficult time reading Euler's name and thinking "oiler" and not "youler". Perhaps it's because of the similarity in spelling to Euclid.

In German the "eu" is always pronounced as English "oi". And in Ancient Greek "eu" is pronounced "ay-u", but all in one sound (it's a diphthong). So I guess you're sort of wrong on both counts. Of course the English pronunciation of "eu" is "yu", so I guess being wrong is relative here.

 

[VanTheMan]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
Maybe the reason we don't already have faster-than-light engines and Mr. Fusion reactors is because Sir Billiam Dindlestadt III died at age 3.

Damn, knighted before he was 3 years old?! He was really on the fast track.

 

[Feldenak]

Originally posted by: IAteYourMother

Originally posted by: JEDI

Originally posted by: IAteYourMother
I was just thinking... Euler pretty much made math. So hard to believe that so much of what we do wouldn't be so if it weren't for one guy.

Edited to remove profanity from thread title. Please don't put curse words in thread title.

AnandTech Senior Moderator
Compuwiz1

sigh.. 7k posts, and no linky?

who/what did Euler do exactly?

People should know who Euler is.

Why?

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: VanTheMan

Originally posted by: Jeff7
Maybe the reason we don't already have faster-than-light engines and Mr. Fusion reactors is because Sir Billiam Dindlestadt III died at age 3.

Damn, knighted before he was 3 years old?! He was really on the fast track.

Exactly. That's just how great a person he was, but alas, he died in a tragic hair-removal accident, which set the world back nearly 700 years.
(I have friends in an alternate timeline - thanks to Dindlestadt's contributions there, it's possible to communicate laterally through time.)

 

[IlllI]

Originally posted by: alphatarget1
Euler's theory of elastic buckling!

i am somehow aroused by this

 

[imported_Baloo]

Sorry, but the science of math goes back much further than Euler. Aristotle discussed math more than 2300 years ago. But he's not the first, just one of the earliest notable subjects.

 

[chuckywang]

Originally posted by: IAteYourMother
I was just thinking... Euler pretty much made math. So hard to believe that so much of what we do wouldn't be so if it weren't for one guy.

Edited to remove profanity from thread title. Please don't put curse words in thread title.

AnandTech Senior Moderator
Compuwiz1

I know what you mean, but I'd have to think someone else would have discovered his theories by now.