/sci/ - Science & Math

>>2811947
Perelman isn't that smart.

>>2811953
herp derp

I thought Stephen Hawking was the smartest man ever?

>>2811960
in any case, if you're in math or physics, unless you're absolutely brilliant, you'll never make a mark. if you're not going to make a mark, might as well make money in the process of your life. so just do engineering
>inb4 engineers are homosex

>Sidis began taking a full-time course load in 1910 and earned his Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, on June 18, 1914, at age 16.[5]
>Bachelor of Arts
>Smart

NOPE.AVI

>Implying that by 2030 we all wont be much, much smarter than those two faggots.

Get your bodies ready for implants, because you're gonna be falling behind without them

>mfw those two guys are both jewish

Newton was the smarted man who ever lived. The fucker INVENTED calculus on a dare.

>>2811970
>brain implants
>2030
nope.avi

You don't have the be the smartest person alive to create something great.

>>2811975
lol u actually believe that
>newton was an aspie
>he was really working hard on it
>he didn't just "throw it in a drawer and forget about it"

>250-300 IQ
>MFW he made no useful contributions to society

>>2811976

>Doesn't take into account the law of accelerating returns.

>>2811983
doesn't take into account kurzewil is just a big troll

>>2811981

I never implied he just "accidentally" haphazardly invented it. He worked extremely hard.

>>2811975
>inventing calculus on a dare

NOPENOPENOPE.AVI

>>2811986

>He cant come up with a better argument

>>2811988

>>2811988

It's Neil deGrasse Tyson who put it that way

>>2811983
Well, we actually have the rudiments of MMI right now, so that seems perfectly reasonable.

>Smartest man ever
>Not Jake Barnett

This kid DISPROVED the freaking big bang theory. You'll never be as smart as JB.tiff

>>2811993
also other people
i heard my physics 101 (lol what a shitty prof) professor say that newton "accidentally calculus"
dont know if he was just copypasta tyson, but it seems to be a well known meme

>>2811998

Is it time for the hourly thread on this kid already?

ITT: laughing whores. Laughing whores everywhere.

>>2812006

op's right
just be engineers
fuck science, you'll never make a dent or win a nobel, you'll just eat up grant money and shit
at least with engineering you'll build shit people will use

>>2812007

>They're not eating salads

Did they actually contribute anything?

>>2812025
Perelman proved some obscure mathematical nerd crap that noone will ever use.

>>2812025

Sidis was smart as hell, but ended up fizzling. Hard. Perelman proved the Poincare conjecture.

Childhood protégées almost never end up doing anything worthwhile


More at 11

>>2812045
You obviously haven't read this:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/a-beautiful-mind-12-year-old-boy-genius-sets-out-to-disprove-big-ban
g/

>A guy with 195 IQ works as a bouncer in a bar.

>>2812031
>poincare conjecture
>obscure
boy have you been out of the loop

>>2812051

read this
>>2812005

>>2812051

Childhood prodigies get a lot of attention when they are young but I don't remember ever hearing anything about them later, at least for the ones in Science.

>>2812039
Alright, anything USEFUL? Like isolating vitamin C, figuring out how to harness electricity, inventing the toilet, etc.

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

Only the ones born before 1850 really did anything.

>>2812056
It sounds the kind of movie Matt Damond would be the star of

>spoke 8 languages by age 8
So he learned a new language each year? Heh, neat.

Sexy fucker too.

braham Sperling, director of New York City's Aptitude Testing Institute, said after Sidis's death that according to his calculations, Sidis "easily had an IQ between 250 and 300", meaning that at some time his intellectual age was 2.5 to 3 times his actual age (not the same scale as modern deviation IQ[23]). There was no evidence that his intellect had declined in adulthood.[24] Boris Sidis once dismissed tests of intelligence as "silly, pedantic, absurd, and grossly misleading."[25] Sperling commented:


Original IQ is not the same as modern IQ.
IQ = mental age/actual age back then

>>2811960
Arguably the smartest man alive right now. Definitely the smartest cripple to have lived though... I think.

What we learnt from this :

If someone with Russian and Jewish ancestry tells you your theory is wrong, take cover.

>>2812080
>Implying it isn't still silly

>>2811981
>>he didn't just "throw it in a drawer and forget about it"
Ah, James Cameron's excuse for the "Avatar" screenplay I take it?

How can sidis be the smartest man of all time?

he never got anything done other than hurp durp highest IQ lol

IQ is for fucking faggots

>>2812084

Pascal was crippled in the end of his life.

Also, all child prodigies failed at being Pascal.

>>2812100
>Pascal was crippled in the end of his life.
>in the end of his life

>implying this is unusual for old people

>>2812109

He died in his thirties.
Try to know what you're talking about next time.

>>2812115
>Pascal (June 19, 1623 – August 19, 1662)
>implying dying at a young age was unusual in the 15th century

>>2812115
39 = barely thirties

>>2812115
Dude that was like 400 years ago, he probably got sick and died from a splinter.

>>2812124
>>2812121

Yes it was unusual for rich people. Peasants died at 30, since they lived on feces.

>>2812100
>Catholic philosopher
>smart

>>2812100
Nyeeh, I don't like the French.

>>2812132

>>2812129
>implying getting sick was unusual for rich people back then

>>2811947
>engineering

HOW FUCKING DARE YOU! I would rather kill myself!

>>2812139

Relatively so.

Hey atheists: If Pascal was so smart, then why did he die before his 40s?

>>2812144
we wont try to stop you

>>2812115
He was nearing 39, which is about middle age by today's standards, so he was generally good as gone then.

>>2812152

Not really.

>>2812154
Yes really, it would've been surprising if he made it past the next twenty years. And he poor health since age 18, so it was going to kill him a lot sooner back then.

>none of you faggots will amount to shit
>mfw you actually think you're smart for choosing a "career" in the sciences
>yfw you're 40, earning 40k a year and have to suck some faggots dick so you can keep doing your "precious research"
>yfw after it's all done you realize it's politics and not science, like everything, except with science it's even worse because it's a bunch of faggots like you who all think they're smarter than each other
>yfw you read this post and know it's true but get umad.jpg and meaningless try to debate me, because I'm out
you're all worthless, dumb cocksuckers that won't amount to shit.
kill yourselves already. the world is overpopulated and you are the cancer.
die.

>>2812195
My 300k a year starting says otherwise.

>>2811998

>>2812195

is there a link to perelman's demonstration ?

>mfw people work their whole lives to make as much money as possible and slave away and in the end won't amount to jack shit and no one will remember them after their children while i enjoy life as much as i can and don't stress too hard about school or if im getting paid shitloads of money and settle down one day and find someone to love and have a happy fulfilling life while not being a slave to money.

>>2812253
>someone to love

Noone would love you you poor sack of turd

>>2812253
>emphasizing love
>meaning sex
>implying that's not the defining trait of animals
>implying you're somehow better than me for engaging in the same behavior practiced by savage animals

>perelman declined the prizes

dis nigga is a smart ass

he's only interested in fame he knew it would change nothing to it if he declined the prizes on the contrary people would be even more amazed

Jean-Paul Sartre did it before, he just copied him

Actually, we could easily be as relatively smart as William Sidis. He entered college at 8 and became a professor at 17, but he died when he was 46. Now ~double that and you'll see it's about the same as your lifespan. I'd rather live longer and experience more of the events of life going at the rate an regular very smart person than hit every intellectual milestone early and die young.

>>2812070
Oh, hi. I'm still singing and making millions of dollars, even though I switched to shitty pop when I grew up, which ironically only made me more famous and got me more money.

they're not the ultimest smartest guys

Gauss > Perelman

Da Vinci > Sidis

>>2812258
Love does not always mean sex.

>>2812280

Anaximander > Anyone

>>2812284

Thales > All

>>2812288

He was Anaximander's master. Not fair.

Perelman:

>He had previously turned down a prestigious prize from the European Mathematical Society,[26] allegedly saying that he felt the prize committee was unqualified to assess his work, even positively.[22]

Oh wow, what a pompous asshole.

>>2811947

Also, so while you guys all get sad and quit doing mathematics, the fairly bright people who are willing to accept they're not geniuses and work hard to advance the field will be getting the job done. :]

>>2812294

THAT'S RIGHT, BITCH. I CREATED MATH AND SCIENCE. WHAT?

>>2812295

You don't know anything about the scientific community, do you ?

Academies are home to the most arrogant beings on earth. Perelman hates them, and rightly so.

>>2812296
unfortunately, the human race lost 30% of its brain masss when it was "domesticated" in order to create more harmonious societies in which people could not complain about each other for just long enough to realise tinsted of building the pyramids for measily rations, they could just eat the pharoh insted
pomputious assholes like this guy are smart enough to realise they are better than everyone else, and are resented for it and thus do not "breed well"

>>2812300

I INVENTED LAW BITCH, NOW WHAT !?

P.S.: My statue is badasser than yours.

>>2812307

I NOW REVEAL MY TRUE FORM.

I've actually had sex with the girl i love.

And I'm not a goddamned pussy.

Totally worth not being either of those faggots.

>>2812240
Is it bad that I honestly thought this was an African child when I glanced at the thumbnail?

>>2812350
>love

Joke's on you bitch! I'm already in engineering!

>>2812306
wat

Being a genius is cool and all.

But is it really worth anything if you can't pass on your DNA?

Rise up, my socially awkward genius friends, and get out there and party! Meet girls, fuck girls, and hopefully marry a girl who will bare your child, so that you may raise it so that it will have an intelligence to surpass your own.

>>2812807

Okay, yes, shut the fuck up. Lets leave this piece of shit board, no, piece of shit site and do something to contribute to ourselves and society.

>>2812816
Chill, bro.

I'm just saying. Go out once in a while and start talking to ladies. It's honestly easier than you think.

Stop letting all the douche bags get all the pussy, and reproduce, and raise near retarded children.

You forgot Chris Langan and Von-neumann.

you don't need to be smart to contribute something to our civilization. just look at NASA.

>>2812807
Who gives a fuck about passing on your genes and all that bullshit.

I am here to do physics. I don't give a fuck about what evolution wants or getting a bunch of mucus over my dick.

>>2812831
Is he still writing his book?

This is why i took on CS.

If i'm gonna leave a mark there only time will tell.
but then chances are i'll never be 0x5f375a86

>>2811947
maybe studying science to prove your smarts is a wrong motivation.
just saying. also newfag

f//NoWay ! ! !
>>2812949

Uncreative Fag Troll can only make two types of threads: probability troll threads and religion troll threads.
Suppose that Fag Troll makes 8 troll threads in one hour, and 7 of them were probability troll threads. What's the chance of him making a autistic religious 12 year old thread?