Generalized Geography - Topic: Mathematicians

[SpikedMath]

I'll probably make a comic out of it soon, but the way it works is:

>> You choose a category.
>> Players take turns naming objects from that category.
>> Each object chosen MUST begin with the same letter that ended the previous object name.
>> Repetition is not allowed.
>> The game starts with an arbitrary starting object and ends when a player loses because he or she is unable to continue.

For the cities category it could go:
Atlanta --> Austin --> Naples --> San Diego --> ...

Let's start with a topic of Mathematicians
Rule 1: Only mathematicians with a Wikipedia page are allowed to be named.

1. Carl Gauss

[Zapp]

Sir Isaac Newton

am I doing it right?

[Gary]

Used to play this during long car trips using the category "Place names". Assuming Mike OKs Sir for your S, I'll follow with Niels Abel.

[bmonk]

Used to play this during long car trips using the category "Place names". Assuming Mike OKs Sir for your S, I'll follow with Niels Abel.

Leonardo Fibonacci

[SpikedMath]

I guess we'll have to vote if Sir is okay.
I don't think Mr. or Dr. should be acceptable

Used to play this during long car trips using the category "Place names". Assuming Mike OKs Sir for your S, I'll follow with Niels Abel.

[bmonk]

I guess we'll have to vote if Sir is okay.
I don't think Mr. or Dr. should be acceptable

Used to play this during long car trips using the category "Place names". Assuming Mike OKs Sir for your S, I'll follow with Niels Abel.

Would Srinivasa Ramanujan be an acceptable substitute?

[bmonk]

Which leaves Fibbonacci as the last name

[Gary]

My own inclination would be to disallow titles.We should also consider whether unique (subject to category) last names are admissible.

[Gary]

Ibn Tahir al-Baghdadi

Unfortunately another I, of course if we vote down "Sir" Isaac Newton we can restore Zapp's submission and start looking for another N.

[bmonk]

So, I'll posit Isaac Newton and add Nikolay Bogolyubov.

(I thought of Nicolas Bourbaki, but that would give an "i" again. . . . )

[Zapp]

Vadym Adamyan

[Gary]

More thought of as a theologian, Nicholas of Cusa, like Leibniz and Newton had a wide range of interests and contributions.

[bmonk]

More thought of as a theologian, Nicholas of Cusa, like Leibniz and Newton had a wide range of interests and contributions.

Augustin-Louis Cauchy

[SpikedMath]

Yasumasa Kanada

Known for computing pi to ~1.3 trillion digits.

[bmonk]

Yasumasa Kanada

Archimedes

Known, among other things, for proving that a sphere inscribed in a right cylinder has two-thirds of the volume and the surface area of the cylinder.

[Gary]

Thomas Simpson, of Simpson's rule (found at least a century earlier by Kepler). Interestingly, this process bears some resemblance to Archimedes calculation of the area between a parabola and a straight line.

[bmonk]

Napier, who invented/explored logarithms.

[xander]

Since we seem to be dispensing with first names, Riemann, for whom the Riemann integral is named (among other less important things, such as the Reimann hypothesis).

xander

[Gary]

Emmy Noether

I 've been waiting to use her.

[bmonk]

Srinivasa Iyengar Ramanujan, inspiration to amateur and self-taught mathematicians everywhere!