My favorite mathematician

[Hayabusa Rider]

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"


He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.


And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!


One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.


"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.

 

[Heisenberg]

Okay, I'm just about a big a math geek as you can find, and even I don't get that one.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Oh and I am being purposefully obscure

 

[toekramp]

hhhhhuh

 

[mitchafi]

That's the alice and wonderland dude right? I know he was a mathematician. He also had an affinity for little girls. C.S. Lewis I think it was? Or let me know if im completely wrong.

 

[HappyPuppy]

Jabberwock


Hence, WinstonSmith's avatar.

 

[ActuaryTm]

(is disappointed to not see Cauchy, Euclid, Laplace, Riemann, Euler, Fourier, Jacobi, etc)

 

[jlee]

Haha..I remember that poem from a class last summer...and this one:

The Hippopotamus

I shoot the Hippopotamus
With bullets made of platinum,
Because if I use leaden ones
His hide is sure to flatten 'em.

- Hillaire Belloc

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Originally posted by: ActuaryTm
(is disappointed to not see Cauchy, Euclid, Laplace, Riemann, Euler, Fourier, Jacobi, etc)

I didn't say best, just favorite.

For best, include Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky as well. (I did note the etc.)

 

[ActuaryTm]

Originally posted by: WinstonSmith
For best, include Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky as well. (I did note the etc.)

Never was terribly strong with knowledge of mathematicians of that particular nationality.

Left off a number of "best" considerations (Gauss, Taylor, Ramanujan, etc).

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Originally posted by: ActuaryTm

Originally posted by: WinstonSmith
For best, include Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky as well. (I did note the etc.)

Never was terribly strong with knowledge of mathematicians of that particular nationality.

Left off a number of "best" considerations (Gauss, Taylor, Ramanujan, etc).

Interesting fellow. In many ways he and Gauss were much like Newton and Leibnitz, but it was not as acrimonious a situation.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: mitchafi
That's the alice and wonderland dude right? I know he was a mathematician. He also had an affinity for little girls. C.S. Lewis I think it was? Or let me know if im completely wrong.

heh. Lewis Carroll. C.S. Lewis was pretty straight-laced.