>/sci/ pops boners over Von Neumann, Euler, Gauss, Bohr, Archimedes,

>>8929842
I'm pretty sure things like fire and the wheel were discovered accidentally, and their physical properties are what made them significant. I don't think they were deliberately invented by some genius caveman.

I could be wrong however, without definitive evidence from that time everything is up to conjecture.

>>8929842

The invention of the wheel happened long after speech you dunce, the Sumerians already had sophisticated mathematics before the first wheel came along.

>>8929845
>fire
>hmm, we have this destructive thing. Let's stick our most valuable resource besides water in it and see what happens

Someone had to be smart enough to know something.

>>8929842
>find log
>roll it

UK DISCOVER WHEEL

>>8929842
Object usefulness is a quality that even apes have. There was an experiment where a monkey stacked 3 boxes on top of each other to get a banana. This is a primitive ladder. What kind of intelligence did this ape have to achieve this? Euler has nothing on bobo!

>>8929842
There is literally nothing impressive about something like inventing the wheel if you have a modern humans brain. You are in the realm of intuition. Almost every human with an IQ of at least 60 can intuitively figure things like that out.

>>8929842
>round rocks roll
>rock to hard to put hole into
>rock to heavy to carry
>tree is light
>tree is easy to cut hole into
wheel made
stfu about it now please

>>8930040
in fact a bet a rock or a log where first used as a wheel. then it took off from their. mother nature wins again.

>>8929842
What is impressive about humans is that we can prove things.

Noticing a pattern that a^2+b^2 = c^2 is easy because most brains that have to navigate a physical world are going to think geometrically, but proving it is what separates us from the other great apes, and the entire animal kingdom.

>>8929842
>using only grunts

Most likely a rather well developed language. Unless you consider modern language grunting too.

>>8929845
>>8929859
I'm sure they were discovered/invented by countless people all around the world at various times. Most simply tools would have been. Even the wheelbarrow was invented in BCE unlike the myth it was invented in medieval times. Rolling shit on top of loose logs is probably the oldest and most well invented non-hand tool.

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>>8930045
>this is what mathfaggs actually believe

>>8930536
>BCE

Atheist pls

>>8930045
The ability to prove in math separates us from great apes...are you sure thats THE thing that separates us?

>>8929842
>and was able to communicate how it worked to others using only grunts

lol he must not have been very smart. Any other caveman would have simply demonstrated that it worked and kept its technological secrets to themselves.

>>8929846
/thread

>>8929842
The humans that connected plants growing with planting seeds is the human who contributed the most to our species since without this guy we would have no agriculture and still be hunter gatherers.

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>>8930021
>apes stack boxs
Quite honestly, NOTHING SPECIAL
Yeah people where stacking rocks on top of eachother for millennia in attempt to reach higher places.
Until one day the great scientist Thomas Ladder came along with the quite honestly, revolutionary invention, the LADDER. He was like, "HEY, YALL NIGGAS CHECK THIS OUT". He promptly removed his complex machine from behind a tree propped it up against his house and installed the very first roof.
He remains a folk hero to this day. His unrivaled intellect and scientific contribution, quite honestly remain unrivaled to this day.
Quite honestly, I am dumbfounded that I do not see Thomas ladder mentioned on /sci/ more often

>>8930624
BC and AD were officially changed to BCE and CE. Only Christian extremists still use BC and AD.