Comment on Alexander Aitken, the Human ComputerComments−thinkpad2011ySounds like a remarkable guy. But, and not to nitpick, but calling him "the greatest mathematician of his era" is a bit ridiculous. This was the era of Hilbert, von Neumann, Gödel, Turing, Einstein, Ramanujan...−3rd311yYeah, the mainstream will probably never get the distinction between mathematics and arithmetics straight.
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Sounds like a remarkable guy. But, and not to nitpick, but calling him "the greatest mathematician of his era" is a bit ridiculous. This was the era of Hilbert, von Neumann, Gödel, Turing, Einstein, Ramanujan...
Yeah, the mainstream will probably never get the distinction between mathematics and arithmetics straight.