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is he the smartest man in the history of humanity?

>> No.9950391

>>9950380
By the way he dresses, yes.

>> No.9950393

Literally who

>> No.9950394

>>9950380
>For example, Euler could repeat the Aeneid of Virgil from memory, from beginning to end without hesitation, and for every page in the edition he could indicate which line was the first and which the last.

Aeneid of Virgil is over 9000 lines long. He had a photographic memory

>> No.9950416

>>9950380
Karl Pilkington? Yes, yes he is.

>> No.9950417

>>9950394
Is this true?

>> No.9950433
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9950433

>*blocks your path*

>> No.9950436

>>9950433
literally who

>> No.9950459

yoo-ler

>> No.9950467

name 1 (one) thing with real world applications of his work in math

im waiting

>> No.9950470

>>9950436
gowwsss

>> No.9950486

>>9950417
to be fair
Lots of people could do that

And Homer. They'd spend hours at school studying Latin epics

>> No.9950488

>>9950467
Euler angles

>> No.9950489

>>9950394
To be fair, memorization of literature was commonplace when he was alive.
You wouldn't say an actor who can memorize all of his lines is the smartest man in the world, would you?
Also "photographic memory" is a meme.

>> No.9950492

I dunno but I'm jelly of his hat

>> No.9950507
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>>9950380
>>9950433
they were just copying this dude

>> No.9950515

>>9950488
nigga euclid invented angles not euler

>> No.9950518

>>9950489
It's 9000 lines, you're a fucking retard.

>> No.9950535

>>9950518
>Thinking that's a lot
Each line is <10 words on average.
It's really not as impressive as you guys are making it out to be.
What's much more amazing was his ability to do complex math problems 90% of this board couldn't ever hope to complete with a calculator. Many of which he could do without a scribe.
There's a difference between that kind of knowledge and memorization skills. Which happens to be why this man isn't the Euler of today.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc7lQNIMNO8
In fact, it acts as a crutch, as people will assume you're intelligent which may discourage interest in actual knowledge acquisition.

>> No.9950717

>>9950507
>newton
kys

>> No.9950725

>>9950394
all learned peoples learned aeneid those days

>> No.9950740

>>9950394
honestly who had the time to verify this shit?

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9950800

Neil deGrasse Tyson is

>> No.9950811

>>9950467
Euler number

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>>9950725
>Aeneida non legit studuitque
Now you'll tell me you didn't even read Ovid

>> No.9950891

>>9950800
that's Bob Marley

>> No.9950901

>>9950891
>He doesn't recognize Morgan Freeman

Wew lad

>> No.9950929

>>9950467
Pretty much all his work on complex analysis. All very important for computer graphics, if and when you're reading this, you're looking at one such application.

>> No.9950939

>>9950929
name one (1) thing computers are used for other than to shitpost on 4chan

im waiting

>> No.9950942

>>9950380
That would be Jonathan Tooker

>> No.9950944

>>9950939
u-uhh, my dad pays his bills via computers, I think... Does that count?

>> No.9950949

>>9950942
You forgot to put the lord in your name field John

>> No.9950971

>>9950944
no he's probably just shitposting on biz

>> No.9950980

>>9950939
>intelligence is measured in real world applications
>name one real world application
>name one real world application besides the one you mentioned

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9951018

>>9950380
Second to Da Vinci

>> No.9951032

>>9950939
>name one (1) thing computers are used for other than to shitpost on 4chan

Sharing hilarious cat videos.

Accessing increasingly disturbing and low quality supplies of pornography.

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>>9950507
Heh nice try kid

>> No.9951063

Did the genius mathematician die out some time in the early 20th century? Was the timeframe for mathematicians just gone after that period? Same for physicists really, although they arguably started a few years later and ended as well.

Was it just mostly low hanging fruit back then and now the subject matter is getting too complex to make real progress outside of huge teams and insane amounts of data?

>> No.9951085

>>9951063
social media made us all brainlets

>> No.9951147

>>9951032
nigga cats were INVENTED in /b/

also /gif/ has all you need... if not, then kys

>> No.9951588

>>9951018
>not Oresme

>> No.9951604

Royal Rife. One of the few men I've had a genuine interest and respect for.

>> No.9951673

Test

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>>9950380
The method that Euler deduced for generating Euler's totient function and Euler's function (partition function) using generalised pentagonal numbers is quite stunningly beautiful.

Norman Wildberger has an excellent, and probably the best, video on it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mSk3J3GlA8

I made a gif of an Ulam spiral spiralling towards Euler's polynomial: [math]x^2 + x + 41[/math], which generates 40 consecutive primes when [math]0 \leqslant x \leqslant 39[/math]. These primes are (41, 43, 47, 53, 61, 71, 83, 97, 113, 131, 151, 173, 197, 223, 251, 281, 313, 347, 383, 421, 461, 503, 547, 593, 641, 691, 743, 797, 853, 911, 971, 1033, 1097, 1163, 1231, 1301, 1373, 1447, 1523, 1601), and they can be seen on the gif forming the long diagonal passing through the centre of the final frame.

I am not sure if he is "THE" smartest man in the history of humanity, but he is likely in a shortlist of candidates who qualify for such a statement.

>> No.9951702

>>9951063
what about grigori perelman michael freedman ?

>> No.9951804

>>9950467
>i haven't taken complex analysis or number theory

>> No.9951810

>>9951063
Back in euler's day you could be a master of all math, now you can only be a master of a small sliver because mathematical knowledge has ballooned so quickly

>> No.9951820

>>9950467
t. high school dropout

>> No.9951856

>>9951063
there have been so few true geniuses that it isn't statistically crazy that we're just in a dry streak. add that mathematics are a human invention so it grows more and more complex with time so they will probably need +5 IQ on top now

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>>9950380
pshh

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>>9951063
Boomers, they are fucking pathetic
The zoomers also are fucking brain dead, the evolution of science is on the Millennials, if we don't do it, no one will

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Gowers

>> No.9953130

>>9951063
Voevodsky was a genius.

>> No.9953602

>>9950380
dunno but you gotta be thinking pretty hard to need a weightlifting belt for your brain.

>> No.9954164

> wear undies on your head
> literally BTFO everybody in the math world

so that's how it works nowadays huh

>> No.9954226

>>9951063
No, you just don't know about them, because modern mathematics is much more out there for people to connect to anything they've ever come across. There's a distance from high school and uni context that's too large to ever even hear about what they were doing. I'm a math undergrad and doubt like more than a 1/5 of my peers heard about say Groethendieck (I will not look up how that's spelled) simply because to even see the point of abstract algebra you have to cover so much material we haven't yet gotten to.

>> No.9954229

>>9954226
Also mathematics research didn't really ever become much of a collective effort the way physics and other major fields have. It's still quite individualistic.

>> No.9954666

>>9950901

holy shit Will Smith really let himself go didn't he ?

>> No.9954674

>>9950467
retard

>> No.9954871

>>9954666
can we stop this reddit thread?

>> No.9955274

>>9950518
millions of people memorise the quran and its 8000 lines long... its impressive but memorising words is pretty easy.

>> No.9956440

>>9950394
>>9950518
If only it had 9000 pages... Everyone can memorize 9000 lines, dumbass

>> No.9956650

>>9950416
Hahahhahahahaha

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9956717

post rare Eulers

>> No.9956765

By most intelligent person, you mean most intelligent public figure and then it's a question about who boasted the most to make history.
People on the same intellectual level as these jokers are not rare, but simply not known because they aren't boasting or feeling it's worthwhile to push their findings in peoples faces.

>> No.9956784

>>9956765
I don't think anyone who is super intelligent would just keep findings to themselves, and they would be integrated with a wider group by necessity. However, I think that wider group may in some cases be secretive (government projects) and so these individuals may be kept hidden from public view

>> No.9956820

>>9956784
to be frank the question is "in history" which implies being known by history so my point is moot in this case.

>> No.9957016

>>9951063
Technology made us brainlets
We use it as a crutch

>> No.9957033

>>9953130
>He thinks Voevodsky died

>> No.9957381

>>9956650
Underrated post.

>> No.9957509

>>9951588
who?