Is he as smart as Von Neumann was

[Anonymous No.11155649]

in terms of raw intellect?

[Anonymous No.11155665]

>>11155649
Yes: Von Neumann was basically a meme.

[Anonymous No.11155673]

>>11155665
how was he a meme?

[Anonymous No.11155836]

>>11155649
witten's raw intellect is off the charts, easily von neumann level

[Anonymous No.11155889]

>>11155673
He was Jewish, so schizos refuse to believe he was such a genius. Somehow, a bunch of /pol/fags made their way onto this board, and they don't know how to get back.

[Anonymous No.11155958]

>>11155649
His head is bigger, so the answer is trivially true

[Anonymous No.11155969]

>>11155889
But, anon, Witten is also Jewish.

[Anonymous No.11155981]

>>11155969
You missed anon's point.

[Anonymous No.11155992]

>>11155649
Just as importantly, who would win in a fight?

[Anonymous No.11156139]

>>11155981
No you missed his point.

[Anonymous No.11156152]

>>11156139
No anons, you all missed the real point which is that /pol/ is BTFO'd by the PHENOTYPE

[Anonymous No.11156157]

>>11155649
Yeah.
Witten is honestly the only person I can really say this about. Some living mathematicians are honestly more talented than him, like Gromov or Serre, but Witten has Neumann's extremely brutal and simple raw intelligence.

[Anonymous No.11156180]

>>11156157
Witten is defintelly the greatest mathematician among physicists but your right that he isn’t quite on the same level as the top pure mathematicians

[Anonymous No.11156190]

>>11156180
that’s because he is too busy being the vanguard of theoretical and mathematical physics. i’m sure he could hunker down on math if he wanted to but he actually has good priorities as to what to keep his focus on

[Anonymous No.11156199]

>>11155649
The thread here is the perfect example of why /sci/ sucks so badly nowadays.

[Anonymous No.11156201]

>>11156190
Not only his mathematical talent but his deep knowledge of the history of physics is mind blowing

[Anonymous No.11156250]

>>11156201
yeah. and to think, he started out his career as a political writer.

[Anonymous No.11156268]

>>11155649
How could normies ever even know that? It would be like dogs discussing amongst themselves whether Einstein or Carrot Top is smarter.

[Anonymous No.11156300]

Does witten read Kant or Hegel?

[Anonymous No.11156301]

>>11156300
probably he’s real both, but iirc he shits on philosophy

[Anonymous No.11156304]

>>11156301
*read not “real”

[Anonymous No.11156314]

>>11155649
Just no.
>At the age of 15, he began to study advanced calculus under the renowned analyst Gábor Szegő.[21] On their first meeting, Szegő was so astounded with the boy's mathematical talent that he was brought to tears.[24] Some of von Neumann's instant solutions to the problems that Szegő posed in calculus are sketched out on his father's stationery and are still on display at the von Neumann archive in Budapest.[21] By the age of 19, von Neumann had published two major mathematical papers, the second of which gave the modern definition of ordinal numbers, which superseded Georg Cantor's definition.[25] At the conclusion of his education at the gymnasium, von Neumann sat for and won the Eötvös Prize, a national prize for mathematics.[26]

[Anonymous No.11156317]

Von Neumann is known for:

Abelian von Neumann algebra

Affiliated operator
Amenable group
Arithmetic logic unit
Artificial viscosity
Axiom of regularity
Axiom of limitation of size
Backward induction
Blast wave (fluid dynamics)
Bounded set (topological vector space)
Carry-save adder
Cellular automata
Class (set theory)
Computer virus
Commutation theorem
Continuous geometry
Coupling constants
Decoherence theory (quantum mechanics)
+68 More

Density matrix
Direct integral
Doubly stochastic matrix
Duality Theorem
Durbin–Watson statistic
EDVAC
Ergodic theory
Explosive lenses
Game theory
Hilbert's fifth problem
Hyperfinite type II factor
Inner model

[Anonymous No.11156319]

>>11156317
Inner model theory
Interior point method
Koopman–von Neumann classical mechanics
Lattice theory
Lifting theory
Merge sort
Middle-square method
Minimax theorem
Monte Carlo method
Mutual assured destruction
Normal-form game
Operation Greenhouse
Operator theory
Pointless topology
Polarization identity
Pseudorandomness
Pseudorandom number generator
Quantum logic
Quantum mutual information
Quantum statistical mechanics
Radiation implosion
Rank ring
Self-replication
Software whitening
Sorted array
Spectral theory
Standard probability space
Stochastic computing
Stone–von Neumann theorem
Subfactor
Ultrastrong topology
Von Neumann algebra
Von Neumann architecture
Von Neumann bicommutant theorem
Von Neumann cardinal assignment
Von Neumann cellular automaton
Von Neumann interpretation
Von Neumann measurement scheme
Von Neumann ordinals
Von Neumann universal constructor
Von Neumann entropy
Von Neumann Equation
Von Neumann neighborhood
Von Neumann paradox
Von Neumann regular ring
Von Neumann–Bernays–Gödel set theory
Von Neumann universe
Von Neumann spectral theorem
Von Neumann conjecture
Von Neumann ordinal
Von Neumann's inequality
Von Neumann's trace inequality
Von Neumann stability analysis
Von Neumann extractor
Von Neumann ergodic theorem
Von Neumann–Morgenstern utility theorem
ZND detonation model

[Anonymous No.11156330]

>>11156314
Oh wow he studied calculus with the best teacher at his time. I take calc three get an A+ and my parents don't give a shit. Math is not a young persons game anymore.

[Anonymous No.11156344]

>>11156317
>>11156319
it would be too tiring to list the things Witten is known for. suffice it to say, it goes well beyond your stupid copypasta

[Anonymous No.11156372]

Does Witten believe Ancient Africa has an understanding of general relativity before Einstein?

[Anonymous No.11156377]

My old teacher told me European physics is simply plagiarism off of Dogon and ancient Africa cosmology and astronomy etc.

[Anonymous No.11156395]

>>11156372
>>11156377
written has said that if Einstein hadn’t discovered GR it would have taken many decades before anyone else would have. i think that indicates the answer is “no”

[Anonymous No.11157680]

Is Witten up there with Grothendieck in pure math?

[Anonymous No.11157780]

>>11157680
Bah

[Anonymous No.11157781]

>>11155649
Witten is smarter.

[Anonymous No.11157782]

>>11156395
really, source? does not seem like it

[Anonymous No.11157784]

>>11156157
>extremely brutal...intelligence
what did he mean by this?

[Anonymous No.11157785]

>>11157680
No, no way.
The only people in the twentieth century who made contributions to pure maths on Grothendieck's absurd fucking scale were Cartan and Poincaré, and Poincaré is just barely hanging on to that spot.

[Anonymous No.11157809]

>>11156317

yes, he defined a lot of new concepts, but none o them revolutionary.

It's easy to define new concept, I can publish a paper that define a new concept called elephant geometry. If i can get a few people to cite my paper, I will be forever known as the inventor of elephant geometry.

[Anonymous No.11157832]

>>11155649
If witten is so smart, how come his daughter is dating a chimpanzee?

[Anonymous No.11157877]

>>11155649
define raw intellect

[Anonymous No.11157901]

>>11157832

his husband looks just like Jeffery epstien

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/378800000151478435/fdeb365ebfeb34b21e863e9166d3031a_400x400.jpeg

[Anonymous No.11157955]

>>11157901
What's up with those eyes

[Anonymous No.11158061]

>>11157877
IQ.

[Anonymous No.11158066]

is he as smart as the black women from hidden figures?

[Anonymous No.11158070]

>>11157785
I'd say Hilbert is up there too for the 20th century

[Anonymous No.11158073]

>>11157785
which Cartan

Elie or Henri?

[Anonymous No.11158126]

>>11158070
Understandable, but I don't know that much about his work.
>>11158073
Élie. Henri is great, but different scale.
Though to be entirely honest, I can't claim to know exactly which one did which thing other than "differential geometry and lie theory was Élie, homological algebra and analytic geometry was his kid."