As someone majoring in Art History, I can tell you this - painted/drawn/ engraved portraits are NOT reliable sources if you wanna know how someone actually looked like back then. You may have noticed that most people depicted in portraits of a certain era have the same face. This is obviously not because they actually all looked the same, it's because those portraits are usually commissioned by the person being portraited/ their family, and the artist is going to make sure to "enhance" features (and hide undesirable ones) in order to make their subject look more conventionally attractive and to make their patron happy with the final product. Painters/ illustrators/ engravers shaped the reality they were depicting to their will and always represented it according to their own and their patron's values/ world views. That's one of the reasons why photography was so damn controversial in the art world when it was invented in the 19th century, for photography shows reality as it is, including all its imperfections. Anyways, I am a firm believer that you should have also disqualified the mathematicians who came before the era of photography and didnt have photos. At the very least , if you really wanted to include them anyway, you should have based your opinion on written descriptions from these guys' contemporaries. Written reports are by no means 100% reliable, and obviously they can distort reality just the same, buuuuuut usually, if a historical figure was especially hot, there tends to be a large amount of written records about how attractive they were. Lol
Firm believer in the house. You made a good case, but a video ranking people based on descriptions on them would probably have made for a very lame video (:
@@NikolajKuntner hey I am just extremely concerned about accuracy in my top ten most bangable mathematicians of all time tier lists. This is important stuff
Even if Galois has only one picture he still makes it to the top of my list Still I'm really happy that I'm not the only one on earth that has a top 10 smashable mathematicians list
Not a list I would have expected to see, lol. Some good picks, and I would nominate further: young Hassler Whitney, young Edsger Dijkstra (making use of the loose definition of "mathematician"), and Tim Gowers.
@@NikolajKuntner I agree, he looks like some ethereal being who infiltrated our society just to see what these silly creatures are about (and his intelligence is roughly what I would expect from such a being)
@@clarkkant5322 There's a nice episode of the In Our Time podcast, which has been going for two decades, in which Gowers is a guest. Google "BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Pierre-Simon Laplace"
The vibe I'm getting is a 'straight' guy coming up with convoluted reasons to justify his gayness lol. 'like bro, he's like a genius. He like made huge advancements in science. Isn't that kinda sexy?' Not saying that's what's going on. But it gave me a good laugh.
Definitely agree with Edward Frenkel. I would also include June Huh another living mathematician. John Urschel has gotta make an appearance too for being so strong; although he was famous for playing American Football first. Honorable mention for RU-vid Chads wrath of math and epic math time. My female picks: Tai-Danae Bradley Lisa Piccirillo Kelsey Houston-Edwards
As I don't want to reconsider my interests, here's a list of top five females that I would pick 1)Laura Schaposnik 2)Holy Kreiger 3)Mariana Viazovska 4)Maryam Mirzakhami(Debatable) 5)Eugenia Chang(Debatable) Honourable mention- Emmy Noether
