Who do you consider the smartest person in history?

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>>3239066

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At least my favorite human of all time.

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How can one thinker have so much influence to the extent of shaping 20th century politics and philosophy to such extent

>>3239085

First person I thought of, too.

> tfw we're past the age where a polymath can make genius contributions to both art and science

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Stick to the trade schools, Johnny, your phenotype is archaic.

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It's not even a contest. All other answers are wrong.

>>3239113
Who is that?

>>3239066
>>3239113
1 Von Neumann
2 Ramanujan
3 Newton
4 Gauss
5 Euler
6 Archimedes
7 Faraday
8 Maxwell
9 Leibniz
10 Euclid
11 Aristotle
12 Plato
13 Galileo
14 Da Vinci
15 Tesla
16 Riemann
17 Grothendieck
18 Planck
19 Einstein
20 Bach
21 Beethoven
22 Poincaré
23 Godel
24 Hilbert
25 Fermat
26 Lagrange
27 Lorentz
28 Hilbert
29 Gibbs
30 Boltzmann

>>3239149
Eurocentric as fuck.

>>3239085
this

>>3239163
Probably because 99.9% of anyone who's ever mattered has been born in Europe.

Diogenes

>>3239090
eh, don't conflate influence with intelligence.

>>3239163
Apart from a couple Chinese, Indian, and Arabic thinkers it's also correct as fuck

>>3239149
Avicenna, you missed him.

>>3239123
Thats John Law, he invented paper money.

>>3239066
>spent his last days in absolute terror.
Feels bad man

>>3239149
>no Marx or Freud
just because you don't like them doesn't mean there is no reason they're cited extensively in the social sciences. there's also room there for a handful of postmodernists. they weren't all charlatans. people like John Cage had viable alternatives to millennia-old traditions, which requires a dexterity of thought worth noting. largely agree with list besides those gripes (mainly related to probable fact you're a STEM major)

>>3239653
>social sciences

>itt: people mistake influential for intelligent

I think it should be someone who also had an extremely high eq besides an extremely high iq. So my vote goes to Shakespeare, Goethe, or Bach.

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>>3239149
>includes Plato but leaves out Socrates

>>3239655
>literally on /his/
man ITT Tech really produces worse graduates all the time

>>3239149
Add Avicenna under Euclid, add Ibn Khaldun under Da Vinci. Maimonides should probably be down by the bottom. Good list, but puts a little too much emphasis on math/physics (this is probably due to an implicit bias favoring less controversial figures)

Also
>Newton above Leibniz
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>3239687
>trolly questions with no answers despite being the first walking Patreon subscription service
>intelligent

>>3239066

Tesla

The archetypical mad-scientist virgin inventor

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Kierkegaard.

>>3239667
Bach is on the list >>3239698 made. Lope > Shakespeare, though if we're adding artists it becomes a lot harder to pick.

>>3239708
t. Reddit

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>>3239645
>smartest man alive
>still believe in God when you die
he was onto something

>>3239066
justin trudeau man is a literal genius

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>>3239090
He was based as fuck too

>>3239066
Adolf Hitler

>>3239149
>Newton before Gauss

>>3239653
hmm, not sure how or why one would consider Freud for this list. The people you mention would serve better on a list of intellectual 'influencers' rather than of intellectual ability.

>>3239800
>coming up with largely accurate resolutions of mind-body problem before neuroscience develops as a discipline
>not the sign of a brilliant mind
again, sorry your blinkered education has made you unfamiliar with contributions from non-mathematicians

>>3239722
He was an agnostic and explicitly only believed in God because he used Pascal's wager. His priest said it didn't ease his mind at all and he was terrified for the remainder of his life.

>>3239712

> Mad inventor dreams of free energy, makes giant-ass zapper coils, death rays, acoustic weapons and basically turns engineering from DC to AC
> Lol anon is retarded for bringing him up as a smart person in world history

Faggot

>ctrl+f
>"jung" 0 of 0.

wtf!!!!!!!

>>3239850
He literally did nothing remarkable except contructing an ac generator whos design was largely copied from a french prototype. Sure this lightning emitting coils look amazing but they were not difficult to build or any useful.

>>3239066
Me

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>>3239149
>Godel/Grodendieck that low
>Ramanujan not at 15
>No Aquinas, Locke, Erdos, Shannon or Cauchy
>Aristotle at 11, not 1
0/10

>>3239710
Meant >>3239149

>>3239163
Maybe because the US only existed for 250~ years

>>3239885
jesus that smile creeps me out. how could anyone be so happy?

I wonder how Von Neumann and similar people looked at life in general
They probably see it so differently from us normal people and we to them are like little plebian children.
It's like when we look down upon the normies but at a much, much larger scale.

>>3240159
Because he's filthy rich and a titan of an industry?

>>3239885
next president desu

>>3239149
>including Galileo
Trash

>>3239123
Leibniz

>>3239639
Is this bait?

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John Herschel has my vote.

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It's crazy how a few extra chromosomes can make you smarter.