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Who are lesser known geniuses/prodigies Anonymous Sun Mar 12 23:50:07 2017 No.8743656 [Reply] [Original]

Starting with Walter Pitts.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 00:03:30 2017 No.8743690 I read that thing on him in Nautilus. Such a sad story.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 00:03:54 2017 No.8743691 >>8743690 Indeed. I agree.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 00:07:22 2017 No.8743697 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Tinsley

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 00:21:42 2017 No.8743723 >>8743697 >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Tinsley Thanks for posting this. Always liked checkers more than chess and started watching / reading previous games he played.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 00:43:44 2017 No.8743766 >>8743723 >Thanks for posting this. You're welcome.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 00:45:26 2017 No.8743767 >>8743697 >tinsley was able to see the win 64 moves into the future breh

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 03:24:03 2017 No.8743982 File: 17 KB, 300x300, ababab.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Salk

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 03:28:16 2017 No.8743990 File: 70 KB, 500x403, 1474599035282.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Alfreb Einstime

Anonymous Mon Mar 13 03:44:10 2017 No.8744003

>>8743656
"He is widely remembered to have spent three days in a library, at the age of 12, reading Principia Mathematica and sent a letter to Bertrand Russell pointing out what he considered serious problems with the first half of the first volume. Russell was appreciative and invited him to study in the United Kingdom."

and here I am, a high school dropout at a polytechnic

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 08:41:25 2017 No.8744356 >>8744003 Walter didn't have a high school degree and iirc Chicago wouldn't accept him as a PhD student because he lacked one. That's why he went to MIT.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 08:43:11 2017 No.8744359 >>8743982 High quality thread thus far. Thanks for posting this guy as well. >>8743766 Tinsley just became one of my favorite mathematicians.

Anonymous Mon Mar 13 08:43:42 2017 No.8744361

>>8744003
>He is widely remembered to have spent three days in a library
Relevant only because he was 12.
>sent a letter to Bertrand Russell pointing out what he considered serious problems
Which could be completely erroneous and irrelevant.
>with the first half of the first volume
That could be withing the first three pages.

He was indeed a *genius* but this anecdote could be misleading.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 09:52:13 2017 No.8744444 >>8744361 Apparently the letter impressed Bertrand Russell though so it probably was relevant.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 11:23:45 2017 No.8744541 File: 268 KB, 816x816, 1448501163725.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8744444

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 13:00:43 2017 No.8744684 >>8744444 Truth has spoken.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 13:14:54 2017 No.8744717 >>8744444 >impressed an autistic analytic anglo famous for not understanding all of the continentals and writing a gigantic tome of butthurt on this topic wew

Anonymous Mon Mar 13 13:21:48 2017 No.8744729
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Scholze

>participated in the International Mathematics Olympiad, winning three gold medals and one silver medal

>He became known as a mathematician after finishing his Bachelor's degree in three semesters and his Master's degree in two further semesters. Scholze's subsequent PhD-thesis on perfectoid spaces[7] yields the solution to a special case of the weight-monodromy conjecture.[8]

>He was made full professor in 2012, shortly after completing his PhD, becoming the youngest full professor in Germany, at the age of 24.

Anonymous Mon Mar 13 16:34:36 2017 No.8745154

>>8744729
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Scholze
I have no doubt he is a genius, but if students finish early it's usually because their parents go them in school earlier, or got them taking more advanced university level courses by the time they were in HS. This allows them to finish undergrad earlier and focus on grad classes.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 18:30:17 2017 No.8745443 >>8744729 honest question, no offence intended do people like him get laid?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 18:33:02 2017 No.8745450 >>8745443 Why not? Everyone who's not horribly disfigured gets laid.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 18:35:13 2017 No.8745456 >>8745443 Have you ever met a mathematician who gets laid without help? The only ones I met were those 'I study math and sport because I'm smart AND athletic, please like and subscribe" guys

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 18:37:32 2017 No.8745464 >>8745456 what does "help" mean here? nobody does anything without some form of help

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 18:41:52 2017 No.8745482 File: 52 KB, 800x532, newsimage.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8745443 he has a child, so presumably yes

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 18:51:01 2017 No.8745519 File: 600 KB, 937x480, Barnett.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 18:57:23 2017 No.8745533 >>8745482 another question, no offence intended is his child half black

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 19:04:16 2017 No.8745558 >>8745464 The "you're drunk, that chick wants your dick" kind of help Pro tip: they dont want the dick most of the time, but its fun anyway

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 19:09:11 2017 No.8745577 Who /robert christian/ here?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 19:12:13 2017 No.8745592 WIDLAR I D L A R

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 21:19:24 2017 No.8746120 >>8745519 holy kek

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 21:21:09 2017 No.8746126 >>8745533 Are you asking if he's gone WMBF master race? They say that once a white boy goes black, he never goes back. White women just can't compete anymore.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 22:20:32 2017 No.8746249 File: 16 KB, 225x337, Cedric_Villani_at_his_office_2015_n3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYwydG_aHPE

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 22:27:26 2017 No.8746262 >>8746249 Tell me about Villani, why does he where the tie?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 22:35:46 2017 No.8746275 >>8746262 No idea.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 22:37:11 2017 No.8746278 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoQb_Rp8Hzk

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 14 01:05:49 2017 No.8746556 File: 36 KB, 500x566, hmm.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8743982 >john salk >lesser known

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 14 03:11:19 2017 No.8746801 >>8745482 Scholze is pretty well known in maths, he is a future fields medallist for sure. Just at the start of his career. >>8746249 Well known, won fields medal, popula4 books

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 14 11:57:56 2017 No.8747430 >>8745450 JUST

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 14 12:06:26 2017 No.8747447 >>8745443 They tend to not care too much about it, so probably way less than most people, and payung for it (like James Holmes). They end up finding a gf on their 20s though.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 14 12:07:08 2017 No.8747449 Finlan represent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Nevanlinna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artturi_Ilmari_Virtanen

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 14 12:08:30 2017 No.8747452 >>8745533 I hope they are, so people stop thinking that black people are all dumb.

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