10 Smartest People Ever

Everyone engages in thought but that is merely a consequence of being human, and is fairly unremarkable. There are, however, human minds that have changed the very nature we conceptualize and conceive of things in ways no one else could have done. Sometimes we call these minds geniuses but the actual name we give them matters less than what they have done for the benefit of humanity as a whole. These are the 10 minds that have revolutionized human thought as we know it.

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10 Smartest People Ever

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Leibniz: Invents calculus. (on the list)

Newton: Invents calculus, laws of motion, universal law of gravitation, and theory of color. (not on the list)

[sherlockholmeslives.]

Professor John von Neumann  ( 28 December, 1903 - 8 February, 1957 )

Hungarian-American Mathematician, Physicist, Computer Scientist, Engineer, and Polymath.


He made major contributions to a number of different fields including -

MATHEMATICS -
Foundations of Mathematics
Functional Analysis
Operator Algebras
Representation Theory
Ergodic Theory
Geometry
Topology
Numerical Analysis

PHYSICS -
Quantum Mechanics
Hydrodynamics
Quantum Statistical Mechanics

ECONOMICS -
Game Theory

COMPUTING -
Von Neumann Architecture
Linear Programming
Self Replicating Machines
Stochastic Computing

STATISTICS

[narutomass]

Leonardo da Vinci not being on this list make's me cringe

[drdopamine]

Leonardo da Vinci, Nikola Tesla, and Isaac Newton should have been in the top three

[thales]

wheres Da Vinci, Einstein, Newton, Feynman, Bohr, Socrates.... this list is just random pickings... the ones i mentioned has all of them made a bigger difference in the world than the ones picked on the list i think...

[MrSnapy]

They asked Einstein how it felt to be the smartest man who ever lived and he replied " I don't know you will have to ask Nikola Tesla"

[samting]

Niccolo Machiavelli is a smart man, and he certainly was very influential in the way he recorded and wrote his thinking and theories, but there are many other minds far more deserving to replace him in this top ten. Francois-Marie Arouet (Voltaire),
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Stephen William Hawking, Carl Friedrich Gauss ...just to name a few.

[bill]

bullshit. where is my name on this list?

[Kharkivskyi]

Where's Avicenna?
Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (The developer of algebra, algorithms, and Hindu-Arabic numerals)???

[BleedingKnight]

Nikola Tesla will always remain the most underrated ( and most genius for me) person ever.

[d]

Why is Charles Darwin on this list and not Albert Einstein?

[mountainking]

Wow! They were all white men. How brave you are to be so honest in this crazy 'be politically correct' age.

[Knowie]

it's amazing how we as humans are able to think of such things

[Nautilus]

I don't need to watch this to know that William James Siddis isn't on it.

[fatimacastillo]

The main virtues that characterize the thinking man are the following:
Intelligence
Intellect
Idealism
Logic
Lucidity
Reason
Analysis.

[wantseeall]

Great top 10; as usual. You always hit a home run!!! Thank you for the great work.

[bepsi]

Number 1 the guy that narrates this channel

[robhex]

I was waiting for Leonardo da Vinci. 🤔

[litespeed]

Newton solved the 2 body problem in all it's glory.
This achievement represents perhaps the single greatest leap in the history of Science because Newton had to conjure his tools- the Theory of Gravitation and the Mathematical machinery of Calculus from thin air.
Principia gave all the principles needed for Apollo and the Moon landings.

In Principia-Part 3, Newton established the motions of the planets around the Sun and determined the Planetary masses relative to that of the Earth.
He estimated the mass and Density of the Earth to within 20%.
He accounted for the flattening of the poles due to the Earth's spin and derived the rate of Precession of the Earth's axis due it's non-spherical shape.
He established a theory of Tidal action, calculated the irregularity of the Moon's orbit due to the attraction of the Sun and analyzed the orbits of the Comets so that their returns could be predicted.
Each of these feats would have marked Newton for Scientific immortality, that one man accomplished them all is beyond comprehension.

[benflokstra]

Albert Einstein was once asked how it was to be the smartest man alive, his reply: I don't know, ask Tesla