/sci/ - Science & Math

>>6662723
Archimedes

John Titor

>>6662723
Jacob Barnett

>>6662723
Newton, Feynman, John on Neumann, that Indian mathematician whose name I cannot remember no matter how much I try

God I hate indian names

>>6662814
Chandrasekhar?

repost

>>6662814
Ramanujan?

>>6662817
Yeah, him

Not such a complicated surname, but it is harder for me to remember it than it was learning calc I. I think my brain just refuses the notion of indian names

Nicolas oresme god damnit
Every time this shitpost comes up I say nicolas god damn oresme and nobody fucking acknowledges the fact he came up with a theory of functions half a millenium before it was made rigorous. Also considering it was just out of the dark ages the dude was working against the grain

>>6662816
>>6662959
sorry if this question gets asked a lot here.
Was just wondering who were the smartest people were without the typical Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs answers

Me, I'm serious.

>>6663037
> typical steve jobs answers

you're not from /sci/ are you

>>6663037
Christ, people don't really say Steve Jobs, do they?

>>6663047
>>6663048
There's an image that was posted on /sci/ that I think was the cover of a book about "geniuses"
and the three portraits were Newton (I think), Einstein, and Jobs

>>6663050

newton > einstein >>>>>>> POWERGAP >>>>>> jobs

>>6663050

Ultimately people like Einstein and Feynman are only stamp collectors in comparison to the heavyweights of science like Jacob Barnett

>>6663052
Good one, m8
Leibniz >>>>>>>>>>>>> POWER GAP >>>>>>>>> newton > einstein >>>>>>> POWERGAP >>>>>> shit > jobs

>>6663057
m8 here

agreed

steve jobs was likely the smartest marketer of all time

maybe we should appreciate that, idk

>>6663050
Found it
>>6663048
You'd be surprised. Him and Bill Gates but mostly him since he died

>>6663063
You gotta admit he knew how to herd the sheep

>>6663063
Absolutely true. Marketing genius. But successful marketing doesn't equate to intelligence. Cunning, ruthlessness, business sense? Absolutely (not judging, those things worked very well for him). But it doesn't make him smart.

If he was smart he wouldn't have tried to cure his cancer with crystals n' shit and died like a bitch.

>>6663067
>Marie Curie next to Mark Zuckerburg

HOLY FUCK, I MAD.

>>6663072
>If he was smart he wouldn't have tried to cure his cancer with crystals n' shit and died like a bitch.
Didn't he think a vegetarian diet was gonna help and didn't no medication or treatment

>>6663067
Nope not it.
It was just three portraits.

>>6663076
Something like that. Point is, he opted for alternative medicine instead of real treatment, while he very likely would have lived had he gotten treated properly, instead he died because by the time he got around to using real medicine the cancer had progressed too far to stop.

>>6663067

>>6663067
>Creating block holes on earth
>How the large Hadron Collider will unlock the door to new dimensions
That's what it does?

>>6663067
>Creating black holes on earth
>How the large Hadron Collider will unlock the door to new dimensions
That's what it does?

>>6662725
Siege of Syracuse. Archimedes is epic

>>6663077
the /pol/ b8 version?

>>6663072

Smart is just efficient goal optimization. If your goal is "Be a wealthy fucking man by the time I die," he optimized the fuck out of his goals.

jesus, rapunzel, nefertiti and that cumberbatch dude

It's hard to believe but it seems im actually the first one to say.
Stephen Hawking

>>6663052
Gauss > Riemann >>>>>> powergap >>>>>>> your second tier geniuses.

Norman Wildberger

>a tree produces enough oxygen to kill two humans, so cutting one down = double homicide
Isn't this also a copy of that Hitler measurement from /pol/

Bardeen may not be the smartest, but he is one the most unappreciated geniuses of the 20th century.

>>6663687

truth

>>6663079
>while he very likely would have lived had he gotten treated properly
Didn't he die of pancreatic cancer?
Almost everyone who gets that dies within a year of diagnoses.

>>6662723
Neil niggassy bison

>>6663688
Not fair, I did know him by name but not by face

>>6662723
Michiou Cuckholdu

>>6662723
Why should I care? Any of these intellectuals will be out rivaled once humanity masters genetic engineering.

Your heroes are only temporary.

>>6662723
idk maybe the Chinese or japanese

>>6663050
If anything the cover should exclude Jobs and include Turing.

>>6662723
Someone who died alone that we never heard about.

L from Death Note

>>6662723
Have you guys played one of them MMO rpg video games? And notice how your skill level caps at 100? I correlate this to being smart. You cannot to level 1000 times smart or 5000 times smarter. You smartness caps at level 100. You become at this level as soon you you can research any book in the library.

>>6663657
>Isn't this also a copy of that Hitler measurement from /pol/
Well kinda kinda did ask how many Hitlers that would be

>>6662723
aristotle, da vinci, newton, tesla, einstein

>>6664133
He got killed by his BF.
Not so smart now

>>6663814
>Turing
If you had to pick three, I'd say Newton, Faraday, and Gauss

>>6664167
*he kinda did ask

How about Fritz Haber?

von Neumann, Euler, Gauss, Newton, Feynman, Wittgenstein, Witten

>>6664181
Jewish Nazi

>>6662723
Haha he said 69.

Euler Riemann Gauss

Literally the only correct answers

Leibnitz, Euler, Neumann, Gauss, Hilbert, Riemann. Tao might be up there, math needs so much expertise nowadays it's hard to solo projects or discoveries anymore consistently.

Why not Goethe?

>>6665303
Because he choose poetry over physics

>>6665310
Too rational?

>>6665314
Too lazy

I'd say DaVinci must have been pretty damn smart.

>>6662723
The people who are alive today.

>>6665657
Wolves are much smarter than dogs, but also much less capable of learning from others canids and from humans.

I contend that it is possible, maybe probable, that an ancestor species was smarter than us, but less social-learning than we are.

>>6662723
Gauss, Newton, von Neumann, Archimedes, Riemann.

Those guys really blow my mind.

>>6662723
Claude Shannon

>>6662723
Lord Kelvin

>>6665805

Lord Kelvin was a dumb ass and said things like

"Radio has no future"
and
"Heavier than air flying machines are impossible"

>>6665812
also
it is impossible to devise a cyclically operating device, the sole effect of which is to absorb energy in the form of heat from a single thermal reservoir and to deliver an equivalent amount of work.

>>6665799
Fellow DSP-bro?

>>6665830
Cryptography

>>6665827
But that's true...

>>6664181
I suppose I wouldn't include him because various clever chemical composition/preparation techniques were achieved by quite a few different people during that era, and presumably the Haber process wasn't any more technically difficult than the others, though the effect on the world might have been larger.

Me.

Christopher Langan

>>6665733
fucking autists deserved to be whiped out

I kid

Shinichi Mochizuki

>>6665955
No, /sci/-user. You are the autists.

carl sagan
NDT
bill nye
and me :^)

>>6662723
Probably someone you don't know yet.
People are always improving upon other people work and nowadays it's not much of a big thing because it happens so often.
So likely that poor bastard working his ass off to create something that can vastly improve one thing or another is just being given his money and told to go back to work.
Then some kid makes a website and oh boy it's "revolutionary".
Unfortunately this day and age business etiquette is more praised than scientific thinking.

Solomon.

Feynman, he was both a genius and amazing teacher who inspired many and continues to inspire many.
Euler
Euclid
Newton
Bohr
Schrondinger
Pythagoras
Tesla
Fermi
Oppenheimer
... Are just a few, their are too god damn many to consider who's work either recently or hundreds, even thousands of years ago has allowed us to live in the world we live today. As for who will be considered at this tier from our generation a few hundred years from now is impossible to tell. Probably Hawking, but that's for the future to decide

Ramanujan

>>6663622
> Gauss > Riemann
Shit-eating pleb detected.
Gauss was shit tier compared to the sexiness that was Riemann.

>>6663624
This. No one beats the Wild-Burger.

Grothendieck.

Wasn't there a kid who could speak five languages etc by the time he was 2 years old? Only he died really young before he could invent a spaceplane.