Smartest person ever? Seems to be between Leibniz and Da Vinci

Grothendieck

Why not Socrates, Confucius, Michelangelo, Hippocrates or Galen?

List Von Neumann's accomplishments

anyone?

read his wiki bro

I doubt any of the ancient Greeks would be up there, just statistically unlikely considering the size of the (educated) population.

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>"Gauss"

come on guys

Known for:

Abelian von Neumann algebra
Affiliated operator
Amenable group
Arithmetic logic unit
Artificial viscosity (a numerical technique for simulating shock waves)
Axiom of regularity
Axiom of limitation of size
Backward induction
Blast wave (fluid dynamics)
Bounded set (topological vector space)
Carry-save adder
Cellular automata
Class (set theory)
Decoherence theory (Quantum mechanics)
Computer virus
Commutation theorem
Continuous geometry
Direct integral
Doubly stochastic matrix
Duality Theorem
Density matrix
Durbin–Watson statistic
Game theory
Hilbert's fifth problem
Hyperfinite type II factor
Ergodic theory
EDVAC
explosive lenses
Lattice theory
Lifting theory
Inner model
Inner model theory
Interior point method
Mutual assured destruction
Merge sort
Middle-square method
Minimax theorem
Monte Carlo method
Normal-form game
Pointless topology
Polarization identity
Pseudorandomness
PRNG
Quantum mutual information
Radiation implosion
Rank ring
Operator theory
Operation Greenhouse
Self-replication
Software whitening
Standard probability space
Stochastic computing
Subfactor
Von Neumann algebra
Von Neumann architecture
Von Neumann bicommutant theorem
Von Neumann cardinal assignment
Von Neumann cellular automaton
Von Neumann constant (two of them)
Von Neumann interpretation
Von Neumann measurement scheme
Von Neumann Ordinals
Von Neumann universal constructor
Von Neumann entropy
Von Neumann Equation
Von Neumann neighborhood
Von Neumann paradox
Von Neumann regular ring
Von Neumann–Bernays–Gödel set theory
Von Neumann spectral theory
Von Neumann universe
Von Neumann conjecture
Von Neumann's inequality
Stone–von Neumann theorem
Von Neumann's trace inequality
Von Neumann stability analysis
Quantum statistical mechanics
Von Neumann extractor
Von Neumann ergodic theorem
Ultrastrong topology
Von Neumann–Morgenstern utility theorem
ZND detonation model

he invented plagiarism

I'm not sure why everyone has a hard-on for da Vinci. Or Leibniz.

"Smartest" =/= "most scientifically important". You've probably never heard of the smartest person ever, if we're talking about raw calculative ability.

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cool buzzword, memetic caricature etc

Nore like became THE poster boy for patents of the 20th century.

Intelligence is rarely about "rare calculative ability". You could spend years grinding hard equations when someone with autism walks up and invalidates a tenet unraveling all your work leading you to consider suicide.

See future newspapers on string theory and Ed Witten

Clearly Von Neumann when it comes to raw intellect. Not even sure why this is still considered up for debate.

diogenes

The smartest person ever is probably some indian kid that is dying of starvation as we speak.

>raw intellect
Define this discretely; terms I can program in my Turing machine