Talk:List of amateur mathematicians

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I removed George Padamadan since he was an amateur philosopher, not an amatuer mathematician. I'm also leaving the likes of Fermat off, since if you go back far enough most of them are amatuers. The latter half of the 19th century seems far enough. User: Gene Ward Smith

Are Heegner and Garfield really comparable??? The former proved a famous, important long-standing conjecture of Gauss; the latter is only known for coming up with another of hundreds of proofs of Pythagorean theorem (that I am aware of), more curiosity compared to Heegner.

I submit that this list would be a lot more useful if it summarised their contribution to mathematics. - Just zis  Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] (W) AfD? 23:21, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Shouldn't Ramanujan be considered an amateur? If i read the article correctly he never got an academic degree because he never passed high school, please correct me if i'm wrong.

Actually, he attended Government College in Kumbakonam in 1904 and even won a scholarship, but failed exams in subjects other than math. After he went to England in 1914 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society and later Trinity College. He was a professionally a research mathematician from 1914 on. The years from 1904 to 1914 were tough for him though.

[edit] Summaries

I agree with Just zis  Guy, you know? that summaries would be useful here. What has Richard Pryor done as a mathematician? CRGreathouse (talk | contribs) 08:29, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Leon Bankoff ??

Maybe? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.49.110.120 (talk) 06:38, 3 October 2007 (UTC)