a Yourlist ranking · the crowd decides the order
Proofs that outlived empires.
What counts: Seeded with approximate figures where shown — the crowd's votes decide the order.
Euclid▲ Rising
Era: 300s BC
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Carl Friedrich Gauss▲ Rising
Era: 1800s
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Leonhard Euler▲ Rising
Era: 1700s
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Srinivasa Ramanujan
Era: 1900s
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Emmy Noether▼ Falling
Era: 1900s
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Pythagoras▼ Falling
Era: 500s BC
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Ada Lovelace▼ Falling
Era: 1800s
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This order is closer to right than any editor would've gotten.
Exactly the kind of argument the internet was built for.
Voted — and the gap between #1 and #2 should be bigger.
The crowd is sleeping on the bottom half of this list.