Why don't we have more people of the same intellect level of pic related? When will we have another Leibniz/Tesla etc?

Why don't we have more people of the same intellect level of pic related? When will we have another Leibniz/Tesla etc?

>When will we have someone with same intellect level as Leibniz/Tesla, etc?

Ed Witten *Blocks your Path*

While certainly extremely gifted, he's still not on Tesla or Leibniz's level.

Von Neumann

Terry Tao

The next great thinker is probably either killing himself right now, or being called a sexist racist opressive white male by some warning-colour hair bitches

smaller brains
look into it, our brains have literally shrunk since the upper paleolithic

>Tesla
Tesla is a fraud you redditor piece of shit.
Go back to sucking Elon Musk's dick.

And Grothis, Kontsevich and plenty of other memeticians.
Mathematics today is a far more competitive field.

>Implying that makes us dumber

They didn't have ADHD drugs back then. That shit takes all the potential from someone so the SJW's can feel safe.

Ever looked at a normal distribution?

People today work in teams and there isnt just individuals who work in science alone anymore. Even noble prizes are awarded to at least 3 people

We do, it's just that the low-hanging fruit have dried up.

Elaborate user

>close university
>smart people everywhere

While there is no doubt that all of those mathematicians you mentioned are geniuses, they do not match the likes of Leibniz. The argument of "math is harder now" is really not a valid one. Just because the discoveries being made today are more "advanced" in terms of the continuum of mathematical knowledge does not make them any more impressive/competitive. The merit of the discoveries is always relative to the time period in which they were made. For example, the discovery of the pythagorean theorem was equivalent to Perelman's solution of the Poincare conjecture in terms of genius, even though the latter was vastly more complex. Indeed, what makes the legendary geniuses of history so impressive is not simply their raw IQ/creativity. It's their IQ/creativity relative to everyone else at the time. Terence Tao may very well have a higher IQ than Leibniz or Archimedes, but that doesn't make him more impressive or even their equal. The equivalent would be someone who, despite the bar being set much higher nowadays, still manages to make multiple ground-breaking, revolutionary discoveries. Einsten or Von Neumann were probably the closest thing in modern times. We'll know it when the next universal genius arrives. It will be unmistakable.

Alan Turing is on the same level as Newton and Leibniz. Hollywood meme'd him to just being a crypto WWII expert, but he solved an open problem in mathematics and did very impressive work in areas of pure mathematics that ~no one~ knows about or knows him for. He was a genius of the highest calibre. Godel fits in the same ballpark as well. Erdos and Grothendieck are the most recent math giants that died that are also in that ballpark

This, as our understanding grows, breakthroughs become harder. Its ok though, we still have hundreds of years worth of technology to develop with currently understood science

>Einstein
Please, Maxwell was the true genius. Relativity is simply a logical conclusion of the Maxwell equations

All hail the intellect of intellects, Urg Arg; creator of the wheel.

There are many people making discoveries that rival that of the old gods, it's just that discoveries come so quick and fields are so diverse now that it's hard to keep track or see the relevance.

Well computers have been getting smaller over the last 50 years. So our brains have been getting more compact