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Is he the greatets genius of the 20th century? He laid the fundamental groundwork for digital computers and single handedly invented information theory which all digital communication systems use and also reveals deep insights into the nature of intelligence.

>> No.9917147
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This guy discovered the transistor and superconductivity

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*blocks your path*

>> No.9917150

>>9917148
>*steals your patent*

>> No.9917159

>>9917150
>special relativity was being patented

>> No.9917168

>>9917159
Yup, Tesla tried to patent it along with a pigeon-fucking apparatus but Einstein stole both of them and to this day is incorrectly given credit with inventing both.

>> No.9917170

>>9917168
I don't think you understand how patents or science publication works.

>> No.9917171

>>9917147
No doubt a genius. But the transistor was only so revolutionary because Shannon had the idea of using switches to implement boolean logic.

>> No.9917174

>>9917170
I don't think you understand how humor works.

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>>9917128
>Shannon's mind was ravaged by Alzheimer's right as the digital revolution was in full swing
If only he could see what he'd done.

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>>9917159
In 1905, Einstein would use many of the concepts, mathematical tools and results Lorentz discussed to write his paper entitled "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies",[12] known today as the theory of special relativity. Because Lorentz laid the fundamentals for the work by Einstein, this theory was originally called the Lorentz-Einstein theory.

>> No.9918425

>>9918370
If you actually see what Einstein did, he basically just assumed that Aether didn't exist and did Algebra 1. He still deserves a lot of credit, but Poincare and Lorentz did not just lay the foundations for SR, they built 95% of the theory. And it is wrong anyways.