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I don't think than Iain Banks, Steve Jobs, and Carl Sagan made contributions as important as: Galois — 20; Markov — 25; Abel — 26; Ramsey — 26; Ramanujan — 32;

I don't think than Iain Banks, Steve Jobs, and Carl Sagan made contributions as important as: Galois — 20; Markov — 25; Abel — 26; Ramsey — 26; Ramanujan — 32; Riemann — 39; Turing — 41; Von Neumann — 53, etc. But Erdős, Cantor, Newton, Archimedes, and Gödel (though he starved himself to death) lived past 70. So not all great mathematicians die young.

signa11 13y ago
dont forget gauss.
brey 13y ago
Vladimir Markov, who died at 25, probably isn't the brother most people would associate with the name. not to diminish Vladimir's contribution to mathematics at such a young age - but Andrey Markov, of the chains and processes, lived until 66.