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Name someone smarter then Einstein.
>protip : you cant

>> No.6167095

Jacob Barnett

>> No.6167099

Everyone alive now is smarter than him, he's dead with an IQ of 0.

>> No.6167104

Everyone who didn't fail babby's first differential geometry.

>> No.6167106

>>6167099
IQ goes from -infinity to infinity. It's normal distributed.

>> No.6167135

"Jeder Straßenjunge in unserem mathematischen Göttingen versteht mehr von vierdimensionaler Geometrie als Einstein."
-- Hilbert

(Translation: "Every boy in the streets of Göttingen understands more about four dimensional geometry than Einstein.")

>> No.6167155

>>6167092
David Hilbert. Einstein asked him to do the math.

>> No.6167248

>>6167092
Miche Foucault

At least he wins to the game "having the greatest number of citations on Google Scholar". By far.

>> No.6167511

Einstein was once asked what it felt like to be the smartest man alive. Einstein’s reply was “I don’t know, you’ll have to ask Nikola Tesla.”

>> No.6167523

>>6167511
CITATION NEEDED

>> No.6167524

>>6167092

Einstein said that Van Neumann who worked in the same department as him at Princeton was one of the smartest men he's ever met and that he was a genius in his definition of the word. Same was true of Kurt Godel, Einstein only came to the university to speak to him when he got older.

>> No.6167549

>>6167092
Jacob Barnett

>> No.6167572

>>6167549
I love you

>>6167092
Ed Witten

>> No.6167637

>>6167135
"Physics is too hard for physicists"

>> No.6167658

Einstein was a post office worker and a plagiarist Jew who ripped off the work of German physicists.

A good portion of /sci/ is probably smarter than him. Maybe even OP.

>> No.6167664

>>6167099
this

>> No.6167663
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6167663

Einstein was the greatest genius ever known.
There is no one who surpasses his intellect.

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>>6167658
Stay off our board.

>> No.6167687

There is no one smarter then Einstein.

>> No.6167713

>>6167687
Not even Bohr?

>> No.6167716

>>6167092
Einstein's wife wrote his early papers. I'd say she's smarter than him.

>> No.6167725

>>6167716
There is no evidence she did anything other than help him and to what extent is unknown.

>> No.6167727

>>6167658

/pol/

>> No.6167741

>>6167725
yet quite a few of their contemporaries have said that she was smarter than him and could do math/physics a lot better than him.

>> No.6167745

Saint Thomas Aquinas

>> No.6167746

>>6167092
> Implying smart people must standout in history
Maybe the smartest person just worked on his inner growth

>> No.6167753

>>6167741
Even if she was smarter she never contributed to anything important other than those early papers with Al.

>> No.6167760

>>6167716
feminist detected
> woman
> being as smart as men
> judith polgar

>> No.6167766

>>6167092
James Clerk Maxwell

"We can scarcely avoid the conclusion that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena."

>> No.6167770

>>6167753
those early papers got him the Nobel. do you even know what he got the Nobel for?

>> No.6167773

>>6167760

i dislike feminism but the truth is that his wife was a really smart cookie. she did more work on his early papers than him.

>> No.6167786

Pascual Jordan
PAM Dirac
Felix Klein
Richard Feynman
Felix Bloch


Just to name a few.

>> No.6167790

>>6167725
>2013
>feminist

>posting about Einstein's wife


>doesnt even know who Emmy Noether is


My sides have a differentiably symmetric term in the action of my laughter.

>> No.6167812

>>6167773
>>6167770
There is no proof she helped with his papers. The fact that he kept publishing works until his death shows that he was more than capable of coming up with that work on his own.

>> No.6167851

>>6167786
Also Poincare

>> No.6167907

>>6167786
Even combined they cannot touch the blinding unworldly intellect that Einstein possessed.

>> No.6167918

>>6167092
>protip : you cant

Implying that DaVinci or Picasso or Beethoven who's intelligence wasn't measured couldn't possibly be smarter than Einstein.

Implying Tessla who's AC current is now global while DC current favored by Einstein is just a battery.

Implying the potential thousands all over the world who have superior intelligence but choose menial careers because they are happy there.

Implying Einstein made the A-Bomb work when Feynman calculated the mass needed for the yield desired.

Yes Einstein was brilliant but I'll bet my balls he is barely hanging onto the top 100 list.

Test everyone on Earth before you assume no one is smarter than he is.

>> No.6167925

>>6167790
Can this be an Emmy Noether thread now? Sometimes when I want to feel happy I just think about that symmetry theorem for a while.

>> No.6167926

>>6167918
>Test everyone on Earth before you assume noone is smarter than he is.

I highly doubt everyone will need to be tested. That is just stupid, you stupid bugger.

>> No.6167937

>>6167155
Both Einstein and Hilbert were searching for the 10 covariant field equations for General relativity, and Einstein got them first.
Einstein beat Hilbert.

>> No.6167940

>>6167713
Heisenberg, Dirac, Feynman etc. were all smarter than Bohr...

>> No.6167942

my dick

>> No.6167956

>>6167092
I know someone smarter than Einsten, Hawking, Heisenberg, Feynman and anyone else you care to add.

COMBINED!

25 year old Russian Micro Robotic Engineer who has Microsoft, NASA, JPL, Lockheed Martin, Boeing and 17 governments asking him what to do.

>> No.6167974

Arthur Schopenhauer

>> No.6168132

Do you guys even history of math and science?
Everyone gives it up for Jon Von Neuman

>> No.6168158
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>>6168132
Dat niqqa wasn't even human I swear.

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

>> No.6168166

>>6167974
lol

>> No.6168178
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6168178

Its not there but Isaac Newton is estimated to be 190.

>> No.6168180

>>6167106
>IQ goes from -infinity to infinity. It's normal distributed.

It doesn't, because there aren't an infinite number of living humans. It's theoretically impossible to have an IQ higher than ~195 or lower than ~5.

>> No.6168182

>>6167524
>Einstein said

Ok, but Einstein wasn't enough of an ass to say "I'm the smartest person I know."

>> No.6168185

>>6168178

That's retarded.

>> No.6168189

>>6168178
>Goethe
Ouch
He's at best 135
>hur dur am a riter :^)

>> No.6168193

>>6168178
>muh sentimental pre-nostalgic fanboism

>> No.6168196

Hmm ... Buddha?

>> No.6168198

>>6168185
>>6168189
>>6168193

Its based on childhood and their life perspective. For example, John Stuart Mill learned Latin and Greek fluently at 8 years old even though /sci/ would dismiss him because he was a philosopher.

>> No.6168206

>>6168189
Goethe love Prophet Muhammad:

“Us, Europeans, with all our concepts could not reach what Muhammad has reached, and no one will be able to precede him. I have looked in the history of humanity for an example and found that it was Muhammad, as the truth must be revealed. Indeed, Muhammad succeeded to subdue the entire world to monotheism”.

>> No.6168220

>>6168206
lol le troll

>> No.6168225

>>6168220
just googled it, he apparently did love Mohammed.
peculiar.

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6168236

These two come close, but dont quite reach Einsteins level.

>> No.6168244

that 12 year old autist who disproved the big bang theory

>> No.6168245

>>6167092
hm ,Richard Dawkins
*tips fedora*

>> No.6168254

>>6168196
im with you, I can only imagine if the man was taught physics

>> No.6168267

Isaac Newton

>> No.6168290

>>6167092
I am.

>> No.6168363

>>6167092
>close to 108 billion humans have ever lived and died.

>no is smarter than einstein derp!

i have an IQ in the lower 90's but even i can tell you this challenge is bonkers.

>> No.6168460

>>6167095
This

and tony stark

>> No.6168594

Nikola tesla
Your move faggot

>> No.6168602

>>6168363

OP didn't say there has never been anyone smarter than Einstein, just that /sci/ couldn't name them. Very different claims.

>> No.6168649

Eh... I think it would be hard to make an argument that anyone is clearly and unambiguously smarter than Einstein.

He's indisputably one of history's intellectual top achievers. Intelligence isn't so clear-cut and one-dimensional that you can compare guys like that and say one is "smarter" than the others.

>> No.6168654

>>6168363
>i have an IQ in the lower 90's
Is that a meme

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>>6168594
mah nigga

>> No.6168810

>>6168594
/thread

can't fucking topi it.

>> No.6169097

>>6168594
>Nikola tesla

>thought particle physics was bullshit
>thought relativity was bullshit

Tesla was a terrible physicist.
Brilliant engineer. Terrible physicist..

>> No.6169105

>>6169097
dude, people estimate his IQ at 195+

>> No.6169134

>>6169105
Is this how americans actually think about IQ ? Fuck his work, he has a big ass IQ ===> GENIUS !

I now understand why so many people here think they are "underachiever": "Oooooh I'm so smart, I have an IQ of 190, but meh, I don't really feel like doing anything, but trust me i'm a genius !"

>> No.6169159

>>6169134
not americans, just /sci/

>> No.6169171

>>6169105
>dude, people estimate his IQ at 195+

Anyone can "estimate" anyone's IQ as anything.

Hey, I estimate Kim Kardashian's IQ as 250. I guess she's the smartest person in the world!

>> No.6169182

If we exhumed Tesla's body, could we get his DNA and clone him? Or is it too late? How long can DNA remain usable for?

We should organize a Kickstarter and try it out. He could save the Earth.

>> No.6169198

>>6169097
>Tesla was a terrible physicist.
Yeah, they name units after terrible physicists.

>Born: 10 July 1856
>Died: 7 January 1943
He was already middle aged when relativity became a thing, and retirement age when it was becoming accepted. He died before the first atomic bomb.

He was a generation older than Einstein, of course he didn't know as much physics.

>> No.6169211

>>6169198
>Yeah, they name units after terrible physicists.

They did in that case, yes.

>> No.6169220

Aristotle

>> No.6169222

I read that Einstein had help with formulating the math in his theories all his life from folks including Max Planck etc

Einstein couldn't even derive E=mc^2, it was derived for him and then attributed to him

He was definitely a very critical thinker however, but Heisenberg might have been more so as always having the final word in their debates

>> No.6169228

>>6169222
Well, he got to the 10 field equations before Hilbert, so he wasnt that bad at math.

>> No.6169238

>>6169211
they didn't. you're a fucking nobody that will never amount to anything and you're a waste of life when you're spending your time trolling on the internet.

>> No.6169247

>>6169238
>being this mad

He wasn't a physicist. His assertions about physics beyond what he was taught in school were 100% incorrect. Outside of the world of internet crackpots and popsci fans, that isn't even in dispute.

He is honored because of his contributions to electrical engineering, not physics.

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>>6169247
ok kid. whatever you say.

>> No.6170353

Many people probably.

http://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/cox300.aspx

>> No.6170553

I find it horribly suspicious that he released 5 papers within a 12 month period and never published at near that frequency before or after.

>> No.6170721

>>6169134
Life is different for everyone... some people just don't find the motivation to do anything.

Let me guess you're one of those HARDWORKHARDWORKHARDWORK maybe one day I'll be good enough type people

>> No.6170741

>>6167092
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>> No.6170748

>>6170741
This

>> No.6170956

You guys are just saying names without saying anything else to backup your claim.
/sci/ drink some coffee and give the OP some results.

Now I don't want to sound like a cynic, but I think Adolf Hitler was much smarter than Einstein due to his military tactility. He's still an asshole though.

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This nigga would wreck Einstein any time.

>> No.6171035

Ptolemaeus, Euklid, Aristoteles, Newton, Kepler, Gauss, Tesla, Helmholtz, Heisenberg, just to name a few...

>> No.6171038

if einstein is so smart why is he dead?

checkmate physicists

>> No.6171054

>>6170956
>Now I don't want to sound like a cynic, I think Adolf Hitler was much smarter than Einstein due to his military tactility.

There are so many things wrong with this sentence, you've given me a migraine.

>> No.6171055

>>6171035

no

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>>6167092
Done.

>> No.6171073

>>6170956
So edgy xD

>> No.6171091

>>6171054
The topic of this thread is now: Who would win in a fist-fight, between Hitler and Einstein?

>> No.6171185

>>6171038
Einstein actually discovered the secret to immortality before he died but did not wish to live forever.

>> No.6171209

>>6168178
>no euler
>no gauss
You shitting me?

>> No.6171217

>>6169097
To be fair, all of those were very controversial for the first 20 years and were getting any wider acceptance when Tesla was an older man.

>> No.6171219

>>6169182
It has half life of around 500 years. There's still time, although I doubt you'd find much useful DNA.

>> No.6171229

>>6167092
he had an iq of 146 i have 160

that means i am smarter

>> No.6171240

>>6171229
fuck OFF with this retarded IQ bullshit.

State WHY you're smarter than him, not just because you have a higher IQ.

If you're being satirical then it's amusing, I guess.

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>>6167092
name someone smarter... how about my mom. you nerds won't get the reference.

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>>6167092
Bring out your notepads and a pen kids.. It's not how smart you are but how smart you can become.. that's something you won't find in your dumb books or the internet. Get on my level you immature dickheads, intelligence isn't a competition. How can I compare two things if I don't know the full potential of my own intelligence? I don't understand the logic behind this post. OP if Einstein was still alive he would tell you to stop riding his dick.

>> No.6171273

Richard Feynman - my favorite jew

>> No.6171301

>>6171273
unfortunately he had an IQ of 125.

those who are proposing we get some Tesla DNA... I'm all for that. we should clone him. they can get DNA from hominids that are thousands of years old, we should be able to reconstruct Tesla's DNA.

how do we clone him tho? don't think anyone has cloned a human yet...

>> No.6171306

>tesla gets btfo by edison
>smart

>> No.6171312

>>6171185
His last words that we will never hear

>> No.6171310

I have an IQ of 175 (seriously).

>> No.6171321

>>6171301
He might have only had an IQ of 125, but he was without a doubt smarter than Einstein. IQ determines quite a lot, but not everything.

>> No.6171322

>>6171306

btfo?

>> No.6171354

>>6171321
he wasn't smarter, he was sociable and lived in an era of mass communication and was able to become famous and talk to ppl and give public lectures. einstein couldn't do any of that and his native language was German.

if you look at Einstein's body of work, it's much bigger and more interesting and more paradigm-changing than Feynman's. i love Feynman but he was no Einstein.

>> No.6171395

>>6171354
>>6171301
how has it been 100 posts into the thread and no one has mentioned Tesla?...

captcha: necessary eeksolv

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>>6171395
>how has it been 100 posts into the thread and no one has mentioned Tesla?...

read the fucking thead.

>> No.6171441

Steve Jobs

>> No.6171446

>>6171354
>implying you have the education or intelligence to understand the contributions of either one

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6171455

>this thread

>> No.6171468

>>6171455
fuck off. tesla's god-tier.

>> No.6171472

>>6171455
I'm guessing he's that one math guy that math majors keep sucking his dick.

Elitism and IQ threads are what's wrong with /sci/. Basically the dick waving.

>> No.6171470

>>6171455
lol who is that fat cunt

>> No.6171515

>>6167092
neil degrasse tyson

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>>6171515
you think his IQ is above 100? I have doubts.

>> No.6171878

>>6170553

This. People hardly ever acknowledge the "stroke of genius" that mr. "stick my tongue out so crazy" physicist had....it is almost too coincidental.

>> No.6171880

Why has nobody said Oppenheimer?

>> No.6171898

>>6171472
Nope, not maths.

>> No.6171902

>>6171354
What is a path integral?

>> No.6171911

De Broglie

>> No.6172558

>>6171527
But why?

>> No.6172571

>>6167092

Kant

>> No.6172574

>>6172571

Kant was the original hipster

>> No.6172580

>>6171301
Allright, you guys all about the cloning. You realize, it absolutely would not be the same person. Environment is a huge factor in development (yes genes play a role, but you cannot replicate tesla as he was and there's nothing to suggest he would be as smart). Just cloning his isn't going to reproduce him as a person.

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>>6172574

n

o

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6172598

Boltzmann.
Unlike einsteinien who couldn't into probabilistic phenomenon and rejected quantum mechanics he was a mc was a master of statistics.

>> No.6172618

>>6167092
>tfw no newton or leibnitzq

>> No.6172631

>>6167106
>>6167099
Why would they not just use the standard normal distribution?

>> No.6172662

>>6172618
ishygddt