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To: InterceptPoint

Greatest scientist: Josiah Willard Gibbs. Greatest mathematician: Karl Friedrich Gauss.


32 posted on 11/23/2005 6:27:55 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: SpaceBar
Greatest scientist: Josiah Willard Gibbs. Greatest mathematician: Karl Friedrich Gauss.

Gauss is a safe bet for the math department but Gibbs for science? I don't think so. Newton was not the greatest mathematician by a long shot but then how many great mathematicians were great scientists.

I'll stand by by claim that Newton was the greatest scientist.

90 posted on 11/23/2005 7:21:59 PM PST by InterceptPoint
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