/sci/ - Science & Math

Absolutely Fucking Not

>>11426078
19th century was the best century

Posting great 19th century mathematicians.

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and then the wars and dysgenics started to kick in...

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>>11426188
Mein Fuhrer?

>>11426217
He is among our number

>>11426078
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>>11426278
So where's the equivalent to these guys right now? How come there's literally not a single Nietzsche, Galois or Napoleon even when the population is several times larger than it was back then? In fact there hasn't been any great men for the past half century so what exactly caused this modern mediocrity? It can't be the internet or smartphones because it happened before them and it can't be procrastination because watching TV all day only became normal in the 90s or so. So why did the desire for greatness completely vanish across the globe?

>>11426514
The death of God and rise of nihilism. Why strive for greatness if we're all just a bunch of lifeless atoms whizzing through an indifferent universe?

>>11426514
The early 20th Century ruined the world. WWI, Russian Revolution, Spanish Flu, Great Depression and WWII fucked everything up. Just think about it: the great minds of the century were all born prior to the depression. Feynman, von Neumann, Howard Hughes, Einstein, Turing, Heisenberg, Bohr, Dirac, Wittgenstein, Pauling and so on

>>11426707
It was really ww2 and cold wa. The manhattan project, arms race, NASA turned science into an industry. Scientists, mathematicians and engineers were churned out of schools like products on an assembly line. Government funding and bureaucracy made science more conformist. You can't have any radical ideas if you want that grant money. We started building bigger particle accelerators instead of bigger ideas.

>>11426514
Nowadays most academics are gatekeepers and power tripping

>>11426514
There's so much information out there with no reasonable way to filter it, that you would never know if there was indeed a new Nietzsche or Galois. On another hand, science and humanities are becoming increasingly fragmentated and even the people with actual talent and geniality are most likely working on very niche topics. I think we actually got way more "geniuses" per 100,000 people nowadays thanks to the Internet (tons of freely circulating information) and better health conditions, but we don't see them in mass media and anyhow we probably won't understand their work -- but that's a wild guess. It also takes time to be recognized as such, so maybe historians 100 years from now will recognize the people that shaped our period.

>>11427018
so you think kikes are to be blamed
what a bold take!!
i'm starting to think they're just a scapegoat for you

Brighter Than 1000 Suns, which is a history of the creation of atomic and nuclear weapons, has a lot of long descriptions of life and work around Göttingen and in other locations during the early 1900s, made it seem quite pleasant.