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5327733 No.5327733 [Reply] [Original]

What happened to the great minds? Why are these people the last of their kind?
All we have are trolls like Michio Cocku, and Neil smokedGrass Tyson.

>> No.5327743

>>5327733
Just because you don't know about the greats of our day doesn't mean they exist. Some guy, can't remember his name right now, is getting close to solving the Golbach Conjecture.

There's also Perellman, or however you spell his name. He solved another Millennium Problem.

>> No.5327744

Because you romanticize the past but not the present.

>> No.5327748

Nowadays scientists are expected to publish 5+ papers with several conceptually new results every month. Thus they concentrate on obscure but easy problems with no practical relevance. Back then it wasn't required to publish that much thus people spent more time to solve big unsolved problems whose solution instantly made them famous.

>> No.5327749

This thread is bad you should feel bad for making it.

>> No.5327752

>>5327743
>doesn't mean they don't exist

ffs. Just read a text book (mostly) in one night in an effort to study for an upcoming final, so I'm a little fried.

>> No.5327754

>>5327733
>What happened to the great minds?

I'm here.

>> No.5327757

the only ones whose names I don't recognise are:
picard
henriot
ehrenfest
hersen
de dondor
verschaffelt
fowler
knudsen
kramers
guye
wilson
richardson

Are those guys less important than the others or were they just more modest about naming things after themselves?

>> No.5327758

>>5327748
>5+ papers a month

Oh please.
None of the members of my chemistry department at cambridge publish that much.

>> No.5327762

>>5327758
Yeah AFAIK no one at my college publishes that much either.

I do know that there is a much more pressure to publish these days, however.

>> No.5327761

>>5327748
Not even Erdos published that fast

>> No.5327768

Great minds certainly exist, but they have specialized so much that you barely hear anything about it, because you wouldn't understand jack shit anyways. Why would the media make a report about a scientific breakthrough that people who aren't specialists in the respective field are not able to fathom?

If you wanna hear some names, check out Andrew Wiles.

>> No.5327778

I'm here.

>> No.5327794

im here too, op is a fag

>> No.5327864

>>5327744
I've forgotten most of my calculus. If you want to find the gravity of a sphere, I know you integrate from zero to 100. If you integrate from minus fifty to 100, does anything unusual happen? It's only math anyway.

References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_length

>> No.5327889

they are studying business or liberal arts because tv told them to

>> No.5327895

I know right? I posted the same thread a few months ago. It's mind boggling to think how many great minds we had between 1850 and 1950 all living as the same time.

>> No.5327896

They are there, they just don't do science education tv because they are busy doing research.

>> No.5327929

Shouldn't we have easily doubled the amount of really smart people now that we encourage women to get an education?

Oh, right. Library science and women's studies.

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5327940

>>5327768
Implying anyone but fellow scientists and intellectuals understood relativity back when he was famous.

At the turn of the century up until the 70s we gave science and scientists the recognition they deserved. More people pursued scientific careers despite the shitty pay because it was held in high regard by society.

At some point Gordon Gekko, instead of Albert Einstein became the popular culture model upon which to base a career.