Contemporary Genius

>>7937486
The actual anonymous researchers who don't need to have others advertise their intelligence.

>>7937486
Ben Bernanke

>>7937486
GauB

peter norvig is the greatest genius alive

>>7937486
Witten

Bash String Theory all you want, that guy is still obviously a genius.

Eric Dollard

>>7937605
my vote goes to him or Tao

Ed Witten

>>7937486
>Listing GauB instead of Yooler

>>7937486
>Wittgenstein
>Genius

HAHAHA. Get the fuck out of here philosophy faggot.

Jacob Barnett

Neil Degrasse Tyson
He gets a lot of shit on here, but when you looks at his contributions to science, he's one of the best scientists of our generation right up there with Hawking.

Witten is considered by some to be in contest for smartest human alive. I've met him (briefly) and attended a lecture he gave, and the man is as intellectually dynamic as he is soft spoken.

arshak

>>7937850
Degrasse radiation

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Da Vinci? Terrence Tao.

>Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss German: Gauß, Latin: Carolus Fridericus Gauss) (30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, algebra, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, mechanics, electrostatics, astronomy, matrix theory, and optics.

Terrence Tao.

Wittengstein? ...Christopher Langin, sure why not.

But ultimately I feel like Elon Musk's the genius who's contributed more to humanity than anyone else.

>>7937605
Fucking string theory turned out to be another way to describe quantum wave function collapse and it blew my mind and gave me superpowers

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>>7937885
Forgot about Grigori.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman

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>>7937892
Wrong Grigori.

Einstein, planck, bohr, heisenberg, schrodinger, riemann, mendeleev, cesaro, sartre, decartes... i could go on a long time, thats just my top ten great minds. Not in order.

>>7937899
Long Schlong's dead, my boy.

>>7937911
>no Gauss or Euler
To the trash

>>7937530
It's G-Gauß you ignorant fuck

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>of our time
>(mostly) everyone posting people who are long dead

>>7937994
its just a gauss

>>7937892
that guys actually insane.

My contributions Yitang Zhang. Apparently this dude went 7 days without talking and "working" for him means pacing back and forth in a 20 foot hallway. If you're that autistic, you're probably pretty smart.

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>>7937486
Susskind

>>7937831
b8

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>>7937486
carl sagan pic related

Serre

Mostly because I actually saw him in person once.

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>>7937486

>>7937486
Of our time? I'd have to say, amongest mathematical contributions:

Misha Gromov, Ed Witten, Jack Milnor, JP Serre, MIchael Atiyah, Pierre Deligne, maayybe people like Yau get in. Terence tao definitely gets a place amongst these greats, especially if he keeps going like he's going.

Also, why is it that we (me included) never think of the giant analysts like Pierre-Louis Lions, Eli Stein, Peter lax, etc. when coming up with these genius lists. It seems the only analyst who ever gets recognition are the ones with some extra "sexiness" like tao or fefferman's youth.

>>7938156
Oh, and to add, i don't think any of these guys match Gauss because I STILL think gauss and euler are the two greatest mathematicians of all time, including ancients. But they certainly are giants in their field as influential and original as OP's pic (Saul Kripke, analytic philosopher)

>>7937911
Pauling ?

>>7937885
>Elon Musk
>genius

Lemme guess, Jobs was a genius too?

>>7937885
Comparing Wittgenstein to Langan is kind of ridiculous. Basically all philosophy done in every department in England and the United states does work that can be directly traced to Wittgenstein. Even if you don't like philosophy, his influence is undeniable (American philosophers were polled, ranked him as THE most important philosopher of the past 200 years, above Quine, Russel, Frege, Mill, Hegel, Kripke, Nietszche, Marx, Kierkegaard, Popper)

>>7938182
Tbh he kinda was. Not academically obviously, but I mean he was a genius at business. He convinced people to buy a bunch of expensive shit they would never need and is kinda responsible for how we live our lives today (constantly connected).

>>7937816
>Oiler published thousands of papers in 10 years
>wingdings samurai published one paper

>>7938362
You just described like every successful business man

Satoshi Nakamoto whoever he is.

>>7938389
>Satoshi Nakamoto
Is that the creator of Packman?

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>>7937831
beautiful

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Saharon Shelah of course.

>>7938182
He and Terrence Tao share what I would call a trademark 'genius stutter.'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHrFGe9OlwE&feature=player_embedded

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtsrAw1LR3E

Elon Musk has to be genius.For various reasons; though here I'm simply making an odd (though qualifiable) comparison.

>>7937486

wittgenstein wasn't a genius

>>7938182
Musk is god tier. Jobs was a faggot. Fuck apple

>>7938455
This is true.

>>7938455
Looks like Feynman's brother

>>7937831
The guy knows how to make CPUs from scratch.
He's a genius if I've ever seen one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K48415OeDdg

>>7938362
He was a driven asshole who got lucky running into actual geniuses (ie Woz) to help him build a company while he acted as the 'idea guy' and ended up getting all the credit.

The story of Steve Jobs is really just a tragedy of the great people that worked with him.

>>7938749
Ehh, he's nothing special. This Korean guy I knew in middle school copied HDDs by hand and constructed a working clone of the Pentium III Coppermine out of q-tips and clothespins.

Terrence Tao is the greatest mathematical genius since Gauss himself.

>>7938389
it's numerous people

>>7938128
Subtle, if this weren't /sci/.

>>7938843
You're abso-fucking-lutely retarded.

To list just one, Von Neumann.

>>7937486
Tao and Witten come to mind
Witten knows more maths than most mathematicians, and the dude went from a history degree to a PhD in physics in like three years or some shit

>>7937615
>>>/x/

>>7939302
Witten is a brilliant mathematician but a failed physicist.

A man significantly more intelligent than Einstein whose ability to uncover the structure of this world is nonetheless inferior.

>>7939308
>Witten is a failed physicist.
I guess that's why he won the nobel prize in physics.

>Not a single female genius mentioned
>sci misogynistic af
>mfw

>>7939308
I suppose I sort of agree in the sense that Witten does seem to lack physical intuition when compared to the typical "great" physicists like Einstein

But on the other hand, he's good at providing very simple and clear explanations for complicated concepts, like the Coleman-Mandula theorem. Maybe it's just that his field doesn't reward physical understanding.

>>7939311
He won the fields medal in mathematics. He will never win the nobel prize in physics because, though elegant and worth a fields medal in mathematics, his theories are mathturbation. They don't connection with reality.

Witten, Susskind and others condemned an entire generation of talented high energy physicists to a fruitless dead end in string theory. Only Witten himself accomplished something, the highest award in mathematics. Not physics.

>>7939317
Oh, I'm stupid. I misread the article that I thought said he was a nobel laureate.

>>7938090
FTW. Why is he so under rated. I know shit nothing about math yet I watch all of his stanford lectures on youtube and get more out of it every time. Great teacher and legit genius.

>>7939312
There have been genius women like Noether.

Can anyone name a contemporary one?

>>7939336
Lisa Randall is very influential in physics but not really in the same league as Witten, etc.

>>7938455
Criminally underrated mathematician outside of his field.

>>7939336
Just genius? There are tons in math. Noether-level genius? I'm not so sure. But people like Ingrid Debauchies, Karen Uhlenbeck, Dusa Mcduff are tip-top tier mathematicians, easily in the same league as other top living mathematicians. Can't think of any more than those 3 really in the same league though.

>>7939308
>Witten is a brilliant mathematician but a failed physicist.

To be fair, a lot of Witten's work can be very useful in studying Gauges Theories and GR. You don't really need to incorporate the Stringy aspects.

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>>7939317#
>They don't connection with reality.
no mathematics connects with reality, that is the point of the various formalizations of your various favorite speculations.

>>7937530
I was wondering who the fuck you were talking about
>>7937994
Figured it out.

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>>7937510
Take it easy, OP OS trying to be nice anon

>>7937486
Im not sure, probably hawkings

>>7937892
I'm a fan. Who give a shit if the voices in his head help him solve problems?

>>7937486
Obgono. "Murica iz alrudy gr8, letz maek it gr8r". Not even I can do those high-level maths.

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>>7937486
Norm Macdonald

>>7937911
>living

Walter Lewin

>>7940725
As a teacher, yes. As a physicist, no.

>>7937911
>Sartre
This is how I know you don't actually study any philosophy. Unless you mean in terms of literature, in which case I'd just be judging your taste.

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>>7937486

Pic related

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Giulio Tononi

>>7940444
Yes, the truth of theorems does not refer to reality. What I'm talking about are the theories high energy physicists have been developing. They are formalised in extremely sophisticated mathematical structures. Those structures are so sophisticated and their development so mathematically profound that Witten was awarded a Fields medal for it.

It's just that the physical theories that were formalised in terms of these structures have failed to shed light on how the universe works.

>>7941222
trips speak truth

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Ettore Majorana

>>7937486
Tao, Witten, Weinberg, not in a particular order.

What is a genius? Is it measured by results or natural ability? Andrew Wiles did what many considered impossible by just shoving a problem up his ass and sticking with it for nearly a decade.
High IQ's are everywhere, results aren't, IMO.

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>>7937605
I don't care for his work in string theory but his and Lurie's work in TQFT makes me want to kill myself
t. Grad student in TQFT

>>7939308
>Witten is a brilliant mathematician but a failed physicist
>>7939317
>his theories are mathturbation. They don't connection with reality


TQFT and string theories are dead ends for high energy physics, but condensed matter theory is using the same mathematics and models to predict novel states of matter.

Topological Band Theory is wildly successful. If Witten wins a nobel, it will be for contributions to condensed matter physics.

>>7938749
Anyone can build CPUs from scratch.

>>7943937
> confusing desktop towers with CPUs

>>7943979
Anyone can make a homemade instruction set.

>>7938833
Yeah I remember back in 6th grade I made a quad core cpu out of my own pubic hair and finger nail clippings. I didn't need a clean room, just turned on a fan.

>be me
>Ahmed
>buy soldering iron
>drop piece of liquid solder on a silicon board
>use my dulled school pencil to etch 20,000,000,000 transistors into the piece of metal

"Yeah I make and solder CPUs"

>>7944078
Search of homemade CPU's, they are simple and complete shit, but they give you a lot of pride after finishing one.

>>7944079
Idk, my thing is that I don't feel that great about just following directions - like it's no real accomplishment to use someone else's ideas and work for your own achievement.

>>7944078
>use my dulled school pencil to etch 20,000,000,000 transistors into the piece of metal
Well he looked Korean to me.

>>7944093
Then the kid is a fucking dumb ass. He follows directions most likely and then calls himself a genius.

>>7944104
I believe he probably soldered some transistors to a piece of board and then exaggerated it to that extent.

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Hiroshima Nagasaki

>>7938156
because analysis is under appreciated, mainly PDEs. I believe this is because it lacks a "beautiful" connecting theory. There has been work to address this though, consider Vinogradov and diffieties or even more basically the introduction of lie groups by sophus lie himself to connect the seemingly disparate methods of olde for solving ode.

>>7937486
They are probably out in cottages somewhere enjoying not having to be bothered by people too much and just doing what they love, like maybe picking mushrooms, drinking beer and doing science.

>>7938385
There are business people and scientists, and there are symbols who figurate in media. The symbolses job is mainly to help encourage kids to get inspired and work hard.

>>7937486
Wittgenstein? Can someone explain why he's on a list with Gauss?

>>7944317
god his textbooks are tumours

>>7944499
His contribution to philosophy was pretty enormous, it's not entirely unjustified

Gauss' intellect towers above most of the other people's on these lists anyway so you can usually find a reason to question most people being on a list with him

>>7937486

Peter Norvig

Prove me wrong morons

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>>7944505
kek

>>7944505

QED

>>7944505
TOP_KEK.avi

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>>7944505
nice try

>>7937486
me

>>7944505
MODS = AI GODS

>>7937831
Cool Clock Ahmed.