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Which one is the biggest genius to have existed Anonymous Mon Oct 12 12:01:58 2020 No.12222889 [Reply] [Original]

>>	El Arcón Mon Oct 12 12:05:32 2020 No.12222896 I pick Newton out of those 12.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 12:10:54 2020 No.12222918 >>12222889 I don't see Jesus there.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 12:25:36 2020 No.12222982 >>12222918 Die in agony like your lord christcuck.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 12:28:58 2020 No.12222998 >>12222889 Einstein by far.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 12:30:39 2020 No.12223013 >>12222889 >All of them are white Go back stormfag.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 12:31:22 2020 No.12223016 >>12222982 Why so triggered?

Anonymous Mon Oct 12 12:39:20 2020 No.12223052
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>>12222889
John von Neumann
>Two bicyclists start 20 miles apart and head toward each other, each going at a steady rate of 10 mph. At the same time a fly that travels at a steady 15 mph starts from the front wheel of the southbound bicycle and flies to the front wheel of the northbound one, then turns around and flies to the front wheel of the southbound one again, and continues in this manner till he is crushed between the two front wheels. Question: what total distance did the fly cover? The slow way to find the answer is to calculate what distance the fly covers on the first, southbound, leg of the trip, then on the second, northbound, leg, then on the third, etc., etc., and, finally, to sum the infinite series so obtained.

>The quick way is to observe that the bicycles meet exactly one hour after their start, so that the fly had just an hour for his travels; the answer must therefore be 15 miles.

>When the question was put to von Neumann, he solved it in an instant, and thereby disappointed the questioner: "Oh, you must have heard the trick before!" "What trick?" asked von Neumann, "All I did was sum the geometric series."

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 12:43:26 2020 No.12223061 Where's Adolf Hitler(pbuh)?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 12:51:14 2020 No.12223093 >>12223052 This I don't care if he sounded like a retarted Jew. He converted on his death bed and was a yotta chad.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 12:59:19 2020 No.12223120 >>12222889 Jesus Christ. Unironically.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 14:13:09 2020 No.12223380 >>12223052 He knew how to mental calc fast, great. Does that make him the biggest genius of all time ? No.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 14:14:24 2020 No.12223384 >>12222918 >>12223120 these

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 14:15:25 2020 No.12223390 >>12223013 >jew >white >meds >white YIKES Aryans decent from celts, retard.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 14:15:59 2020 No.12223393 File: 594 KB, 597x704, kantGoblin2.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] where is kant

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 14:18:36 2020 No.12223400 >>12222889 me

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 14:57:10 2020 No.12223547 >>12222889 fermi

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 15:06:48 2020 No.12223586 I don't know about the biggest brain, but my favorite is definitely Grothendieck.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 15:13:47 2020 No.12223619 File: 296 KB, 749x591, Pascal.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Pascal

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 15:15:38 2020 No.12223628 >>12222889 galois :)

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 15:20:52 2020 No.12223649 It’s a very hard choice, but out of this lot, I pick Newton. Dude was brilliant. Greatest genius in history? Jesus.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 15:27:15 2020 No.12223665 >>12223380 You should check out his wiki — the guy was meaningfully prolific (led a huge number of projects)

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 15:32:09 2020 No.12223679 Jesus

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 15:44:13 2020 No.12223720 >>12222889 There is no objective answer to this. What do you wanna base this on? All of them are geniusses.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 15:47:11 2020 No.12223728 >>12222918 >>12223120 >>12223649 >>12223679 Jesus was a mentally ill fictional character.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 15:48:14 2020 No.12223732 >>12223728 Factually incorrect. Don’t be so vehement.

Anonymous Mon Oct 12 16:13:12 2020 No.12223803
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>>12222889
From an evolutionary perspective, the one who got more pussy and had the most children, while at the same time made significant contributions to science, is the biggest genius to have existed. I'm sure he's not in that picture.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 16:18:41 2020 No.12223818 >>12222889 Riemann definitely

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 16:57:27 2020 No.12223958 >>12222918 this

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 13 03:02:54 2020 No.12225612 File: 30 KB, 300x404, archimedes.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12222889 Archimedes of Syracuse was, for all intents and purposes, a demigod.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 13 03:07:10 2020 No.12225619 File: 18 KB, 220x294, 220px-Genghis_khan.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12223803 Genghis Khan https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/1-in-200-men-direct-descendants-of-genghis-khan

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 13 04:09:02 2020 No.12225782 >>12223393 Kunt

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 13 04:17:26 2020 No.12225804 brainlet here. who is right middle?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 13 04:18:35 2020 No.12225809 >>12222889 Ramanujan

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 13 04:19:40 2020 No.12225817 >>12222889 Lord kek

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 13 04:43:00 2020 No.12225887 >>12222889 Euler

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 13 04:56:18 2020 No.12225911 >>12222889 Euler and it's not even close.

Anonymous Tue Oct 13 05:12:57 2020 No.12225955
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>>12223628
Is simping over a whore and dying at 20 genius tier? Abstract algebra and subsequently, Galois theory is hard to wrap you head around.
>Is his work inherently fundamental for mathematics?
You bet.
>Does his reasoning show an outstanding capability of organization and forethought?
Absolutely
>Did his work come as a sole result of his creative genius?
No

Galois was to mathematics what Maxwell was to physics, a brilliant man who saw pieces of a great puzzle and came up with a way to give backbone to mathematics, much in the same sense that Maxwell gave backbone to E&M via ideas that had been already provided by others. Galois was brilliant, but he was no genius, just a kid with plenty of time on his hands. A true genius would be something like Euler or Gauss

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 13 05:25:44 2020 No.12225982 >>12223803 Do you even know about Euler?

Anonymous Tue Oct 13 10:16:40 2020 No.12226527
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>>12222889
in terms of PURE genius and sheer computational power it's got to be Euler, no one else comes close. Gauss is a close second and they're followed by Von Neumann/Newton, i can't quite decide on who had the bigger brain

in terms of impact it's absolutely Newton, followed closely by Maxwell, followed by Riemann and Einstein in tandem (Einstein's physical theories wouldn't exist without Riemann's work), followed by Euclid (the father of mathematics). no idea who top right is, i assume it's Socrates? in that case Euclid, followed by Socrates, followed by Galois, followed by Grothendieck, with Leibniz at the end (his biggest contribution is ostensibly calculus, which Newton came up with as well, so he doesn't have much else to offer)

you KNOW i am right, this thread is officially over
>>12225887
>>12225911
based Euler-bros

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 13 11:06:26 2020 No.12226626 >>12223393 ugly bastard haha

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 13 11:07:32 2020 No.12226630 >>12223586 Growth-on-dick?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 13 11:09:03 2020 No.12226637 >>12222889 Darwin

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 13 11:12:22 2020 No.12226649 >>12222918 >>12223120 These are correct IF he was a real person.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 13 11:14:28 2020 No.12226656 >>12226527 >Socrates Archimedes

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 13 11:19:12 2020 No.12226676 >>12222998 Lolno. Newton understood calculus before he was 10 and had publications in many different fields. Einstein only had 3 publications of note.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 13 11:34:05 2020 No.12226718 >>12226656 >Archimedes in that case i might squeeze him in between Maxell and Riemann-Einstein

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 13 11:37:15 2020 No.12226727 File: 42 KB, 640x640, 1595847321444.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12222889 einstein worked out relativity with a pen and paper idk, that means a lot

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 13 12:45:49 2020 No.12226914 Newton > Euler > Gauss > Einstein > Riemann > Grothendieck > Maxwell > Everybody else

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