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Can we agree that John von Neumann was the most intelligent man to ever walk this earth?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann

>> No.5712236

The board was perfectly good around 4-5 hours ago. Now the front page is all shit threads.

>> No.5712249

>>5712236
he just made the thread to spam that picture. he does it whenever the old thread 404s

>> No.5712251

>>5712236
You do realize that you're the cancer right now?

>> No.5712258

Worth noting that perhaps his most famous work - Von Neumann architecture, was mostly not his.

>> No.5712266

>>5712258
doesn't matter if that is true, he is infinitely smart.

>> No.5712273

>>5712266
Smarter than Grothendieck, Dirac, Hilbert, Einstein etc?
By volume he is certainly impressive, but so is Erdos, yet Erdos isnt god-tier.

>> No.5712278

>>5712233
no, that'd be Leibniz or Archimedes, sorry

>> No.5712665

>>5712233
Sorry the off-topic. But: pic source?

>> No.5712701

>>5712665

nastya zhidkova

>> No.5712714

>>5712701
Thanks. She looks interesting.

>> No.5712720

Goethe, Hegel, Aristotle, all smarter.

>> No.5712734

einstein is perhaps the most well known, but how does his power level really compare to the other less famous?

>> No.5712765

Define "intelligent"

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5712775

>>5712765
able to act with intelligence

>> No.5712781

>>5712233

Sure OP: having an eidetic memory and being autistic is the closest thing you can come to being "the most intelligent man."

>> No.5712808

>>5712233
He still died.
>Next.

>> No.5712810

not enough riemann in this thread. clearly the smartest man ever. he was probably autistic though since he got tb

>> No.5712819

Why aren't you asking HIM that question?

>> No.5712922

>>5712808
>implying some people dont die

>> No.5712944

>>5712781
This, even chimps have eidetic memory and it is well known that you can train it with practice via visual association & method of loci. However, neumann was certainly not autistic.

>> No.5712973

Is this the guy that von Neumann algebras are named after?

>> No.5712976

yes we can

>> No.5713022

>>5712973
yes, but he did much more than just that.

>> No.5713059

>He could make a theory on how to build an atomic bomb, but couldn't drive a car properly

Being bad at driving is more typical of women. Just sayin

>> No.5713068

>who is da Vinci

>> No.5713071

>>5712922
he said still, I know a lot of people that still havent died
checkm8

>> No.5714433

Reading his entire wikipedia article is amazing. I loved how he responds to Oppenheimer about the sin of the atomic bomb.

>> No.5714469

What's with the Neumann thread lately?

>> No.5714471

>>5714469
*threadz, plural

Also, is there such a thing as summer on /sci/?

>> No.5714480

while von-neumann was probably one of the smartest modern physicist/mathematicians, i dont like the fact how he tried to disproof bohmian mechanics.

>> No.5714511

aristotle invented logic