Henri Poincaré

comment: one of the most curious mind of the last century (well i cheat a bit more XIXth than XXth... some of his major works were XXth though). Intuitionnist before the Intuitionnists and one of the scientific who discovered the main elements of Einstein relativity theory without seeing it was a theory <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" />... Between many other things... the link is probably not the better that may be found but i'm not very knowing about informations for french mathematicians in english <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" />

Alfred Tarski

comment: the only one who truly understood Gödel's theorems? At least the one who had the courage to have a true coherent axiomatic project after them.


MG!!! The most infamous member these forums have ever got!