This is a list about the smartest people who ever lived

sorry it was already full

Intelligence compared to their contemporaries or just intelligent? In accordance to the first; whoever discovered math, invented the spoken/written language and the first creature that formed a cognitive thought are by far the most intelligent people that have ever existed.

Just the thought that some /thing/ went from memory/instinct-bevahiour akin to that in animals to being able to perceive and understand in just the spurr of a moment is scary.

Probably because that's not even close to how it happened. Obviously. Those things developed over time, there wasn't one dude who invented any of them.

Some_one_ must have had the original idea and it was from there it all sprung to life, so to speak.
And I am overly convinced that that is how sentience began for there can hardly be anything between sentience and non-sentience.

who's von Neumann, Platon (Plato?), Johann Goethe...

No Terence Tao?

are you perhaps joking
Serre and Mochizuki are currently better than him

Might just be a bias as a musician, but I think Bach deserves a place.
>best organist in the world his lifetime
>gigantic body of work
>mastered every baroque genre
>wrote by far the most harmonically complex music ever written
>to impress people, would improvise fugues, and if he liked them, would write them down later because he remembered everything he did

That is autism not intelligence

Mozart is said to have had a better ear and was able to write down entire symphonies just from hearing them once. That's pretty fucking incredible if it's true. I tried my hand at writing classical and to transpose like an hour of music from memory after hearing it only once is some insanely genius-level memory.

That being said I don't think many would disagree that Bach had more impressive music, but in a discussion of intelligence you have to mention Mozart for his crazy musical ear from a very young age.

Eidetic memory isn't a particular sign of intelligence

>Platon

Nothing of what he said is smart

>Goethe

Go fuck yourself

>Da Vinci

Smart but overrated

Replace Plato with Euclides and Goethe with Euler and we might have a deal

Not meming but why would you say Kant is one of the smartest people who ever lived?

> no Herschel

Euler's here

where's Wittgenstein?

writing consistent god-tier music is

this

>Goethe
He actually was one of the most highly respected scientists of his time

How about reading a fucking book for once?

Neumann may not have even made the von Neumann architecture,

Decent list. Not sure about Tesla, Platon, Kant, or Aristotle

I would add Riemann and Einstein.

>No John Green

Where is Leibniz

>no me

shit list

Poincare? Maxwell? Galileo? Avicenna?

Neumann János
unironically

>Plato is in the list
>Diogenes isn't

Maxwell is in there. Can't put everyone in

can't you fucking read

Replace Da Vinci with Al-Jazari.

>kant
>not descartes

???

>remember that time when Kant absolutely destroyed Descartes

"I think therefore I am"

>"I"