Harrelson News–2000
Top Ten Mathematical Achievements in the Twentieth Century
The Michigan Section of the MAA polled its members to determine the top ten achievements of the twentieth century. Here are the results:
| 1. | The Development of the Digital Computer | |
| 2. | Goedel's Incompleteness Proof | |
| 3. | Einstein's Relativity Theory | |
| 4. | Proof of Fermats Last Theorem (Wiles) | |
| 5. | Hilbert's Talk at the 1900 Congress | |
| 6. | Classification of Finite Simple Groups | |
| 7. | Development of Linear Programming (Dantzig) | |
| 8. | Mathematization of Quantum Mechanics (Von Neumann) | |
| 9. | The Development of Fractal Geometry (Mandelbrot) | |
| 10. | Applications of Mathematics to Cryptology |