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Originally Posted by sjastro
An example of a towering giant was the Irish mathematician William Hamilton who was referring to 4 dimensional spacetime nearly 70 years before Einstein came across the idea.
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Yep .. the originator of Hamiltonian Mechanics ! And it seems he did it all on his own .. with no academic institutional support ! Amazing !
They seemed to leave him out of the BBC series for some reason
David Hilbert was a one of a kind too, eh?
Of his original 23 problems he set for the mathematics community (in 1900), it seems there are still 3 left unresolved (including the Riemann Hypothesis) … the real "School Master", eh ?
Cheers