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Who was the smartest man ever?
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If you call yourself bushman and don't have a bush, you are a liar !!
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Tesla was so far beyhond his time. Tesla was the guy tha basically invented wireless energy.
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Some on my short list:
Gauss
Euler
Newton
John von Neumann
Ramanujan
...
Thinking it over, I'd probably say Neumann, for his depth and breadth of intelligence:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann
Gauss
Euler
Newton
John von Neumann
Ramanujan
...
Thinking it over, I'd probably say Neumann, for his depth and breadth of intelligence:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann
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John von Neumann
Things that have been said about him:
Things that have been said about him:
- The Nobel Laureate Hans Bethe : "I have sometimes wondered whether a brain like von Neumann's does not indicate a species superior to that of man".
- Eugene Wigner : “. . . one had the impression of a perfect instrument whose gears were machined to mesh accurately to a thousandth of an inch."
- Paul Halmos : "von Neumann's speed was awe-inspiring."
- Israel Halperin : "Keeping up with him was ... impossible. The feeling was you were on a tricycle chasing a racing car."
- As a 6 year old, he could divide two 8-digit numbers in his head.
- When he was sent at the age of 15 to study advanced calculus under the renowned analyst Gábor Szegő, Szegő was so astounded with the boy's talent in mathematics that he was brought to tears on their first meeting.
Von Neumann was generally regarded as the foremost mathematician of his time[2] and said to be "the last representative of the great mathematicians".[3] He was a pioneer of the application of operator theory to quantum mechanics in the development of functional analysis, and a key figure in the development of game theory and the concepts of cellular automata, the universal constructor and the digital computer. He published over 150 papers in his life: about 60 in pure mathematics, 20 in physics, and 60 in applied mathematics, the remainder being on special mathematical subjects or non-mathematical ones.[4] His last work, an unfinished manuscript written while in hospital, was later published in book form as The Computer and the Brain.
His analysis of the structure of self-replication preceded the discovery of the structure of DNA. In a short list of facts about his life he submitted to the National Academy of Sciences, he stated, "The part of my work I consider most essential is that on quantum mechanics, which developed in Göttingen in 1926, and subsequently in Berlin in 1927–1929. Also, my work on various forms of operator theory, Berlin 1930 and Princeton 1935–1939; on the ergodic theorem, Princeton, 1931–1932."
During World War II, von Neumann worked on the Manhattan Project; he developed the mathematical models that were behind the explosive lenses used in the implosion-type nuclear weapon. After the war, he served on the General Advisory Committee of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, and later as one of its commissioners. He was a consultant to a number of organizations, including the United States Air Force, the Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory, the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Von Neumann, theoretical physicist Edward Teller, mathematician Stanisław Ulam and others worked out key steps in the nuclear physics involved in thermonuclear reactions and the hydrogen bomb.
His analysis of the structure of self-replication preceded the discovery of the structure of DNA. In a short list of facts about his life he submitted to the National Academy of Sciences, he stated, "The part of my work I consider most essential is that on quantum mechanics, which developed in Göttingen in 1926, and subsequently in Berlin in 1927–1929. Also, my work on various forms of operator theory, Berlin 1930 and Princeton 1935–1939; on the ergodic theorem, Princeton, 1931–1932."
During World War II, von Neumann worked on the Manhattan Project; he developed the mathematical models that were behind the explosive lenses used in the implosion-type nuclear weapon. After the war, he served on the General Advisory Committee of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, and later as one of its commissioners. He was a consultant to a number of organizations, including the United States Air Force, the Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory, the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Von Neumann, theoretical physicist Edward Teller, mathematician Stanisław Ulam and others worked out key steps in the nuclear physics involved in thermonuclear reactions and the hydrogen bomb.
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Google has failed me. Maybe Sherdog knows. Who is the fabled guy who traveled the world, studying every plant and ingesting poisonous stuff just to study and test the effects? He was like an ancient father of science, but not Greek.
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