In my filed of Goetchnical Engineering, I would name Karl Terzaghi as the founding father of modern soil mechanics. Who would you name in your filed?
Dear Scholar
Only one man has understood the real Pi
Who?
Hippocrates of Chios of 500 BC
The second man who contributed most is Hippasus of Metapontum.
Why?
He introduced square root of 2 for diagonal
And this root 2 is the SOUL of the REAL Pi also
So, Hippocrates and Hippasus are the great people
I think that Professor Braja M. Das has contributed widely through his simply written books in spreading out of Geotechnical Engineering.
Do you think he has introduced anything new and/or significant as Terzaghi, Casagrande, Peck, etc?
No, but he contributed in spreading of geotechnical engineering through his simplified books. I think most geotechnical engineers refer to his books.
This doesn't appear to be a subject-related question so I'll chime in. In my area of Combinatorics and Graph Theory, a part of Discrete Mathematics, without a doubt, the answer would be Paul Erdős. Truly revolutionary!
In the area of Combinatorial Dynamics the answer would be Oleksandr Mykolayovych Sharkovsky who proved in 1964 his famous theorem and thus started a new field of research in Dynamical Systems.
Dear U. Dreher,
Thank you for your answer and the amazing website link.
Amir
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