/sci/ - Science & Math

Von Neumann published a groundbreaking definition of ordinals (transitive sets well-ordered by inclusion) when he was 19.

He also loved driving but drove really bad and recklessly. He would frequently read while driving.

Why haven't they made a movie about this guy yet?

>>6896276

Tell your prof to prepare to get BTFO by the one, the only, Paul Von Neumann.

Cheerful bon vivant socialite who loved parties, and was also the smartest man to live in the 20th century.

>>6868754
You have to be born jewish.

Are geniuses born or made?

Neumann is a high contester. Just look up his biography. Pretty much everyone at Los Alamos said no could outdo him.

>>6626932

Let's flip this shit upside down. Geniuses who weren't autists.

John Von Neumann. Quite possibly the cleverest man to live in the 20th century, he was a fat, cheerful, bon vivant who loved socialising, parties and fine dining, and who happened to be a mathematical genius. Died shockingly early from cancer caused by working on the Manhattan Project

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann

>As a 6-year-old, he could divide two 8-digit numbers in his head.
>By the age of 8, he was familiar with differential and integral calculus.
> At the age of 15, he began to study advanced calculus under the renowned analyst Gábor Szegő. On their first meeting, Szegő was so astounded with the boy's mathematical talent that he was brought to tears.
>By the age of 19, von Neumann had published two major mathematical papers, the second of which gave the modern definition of ordinal numbers, which superseded Georg Cantor's definition.
>By the end of 1927, von Neumann had published twelve major papers in mathematics, and by the end of 1929, thirty-two papers, at a rate of nearly one major paper per month.
>Von Neumann had a very strong eidetic memory, commonly called 'photographic' memory. Herman Goldstine writes: "One of his remarkable abilities was his power of absolute recall. As far as I could tell, von Neumann was able on once reading a book or article to quote it back verbatim; moreover, he could do it years later without hesitation. He could also translate it at no diminution in speed from its original language into English. On one occasion I tested his ability by asking him to tell me how The Tale of Two Cities started. Whereupon, without any pause, he immediately began to recite the first chapter and continued until asked to stop after about ten or fifteen minutes."

>yfw you can't divide 8-digit numbers in your head as a 6-year old, nor learn calculus by the age of 8, nor bring someone into tears with your mathematical ability, nor read book once and recite it years later word for word

John von Neumann

>>6223400
everything this guy and Pythagorus did, plus literary skills of wolfgang von goethe, mozarts musical skill and beethovens swag./

I know you said scientists but w/e.

>>6168132
Dat niqqa wasn't even human I swear.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann#Career_and_abilities

> Not realizing CS is applied math.

Bow down to your god and beg forgiveness OP.

Who does /sci/ think is the smartest scientist/mathematician of all time? In my opinion it is John von Neumann, just look at all the shit he is known for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann

Does hypergamy in the way PUAtards speak of it in humans actually exist in humans?

All I keep seeing are these really highly unscientific studies by evolutionary psychologists.

This fucking guy.

Wow.

Sidis is overrated and done nothing to prove his "genius".
fucking iqtards

post a real genius

By the age of six, he could exchange jokes in Classical Greek, memorize telephone directories on sight, and display prodigious mental calculation abilities. As a 6 year old, he would astonish onlookers by instantly dividing two 8-digit numbers in his head, producing the answers to a decimal point. By the age of 8, he had attained mastery in calculus.