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Einstein and Newton are not at the same level. Newton revolutionized both science and mathematics. Heck, science was not even a thing before Newton. Mathematic
by credit_guy 4y ago
Einstein and Newton are not at the same level.
Newton revolutionized both science and mathematics. Heck, science was not even a thing before Newton. Mathematics was not that different from what it had been during the ancient Greece times.
Then all of a sudden Newton bursts onto the scene, mathematics experiences a quantum leap forward, and natural phenomena start being explainable with math equations and "principles".
In his time and for a few hundred years after, Newton was consider the closest thing to God humanity had to offer.
Were there other people even smarter than Newton? One can count Euler, Gauss, Einstein, Philip Anderson, Alexander Grothendieck, Richard Feynman, Freeman Dyson, Frank Wilczek, Terrence Tao. But none of them came within a hundred miles in revolutionizing math and science like Newton did. Because none of them changed the framework of how we do math and science, they just added new theorems and theories. (I don't mean to take away from how great all these people were and are; they simply showed up after Newton, and there was no other new framework to be discovered).
So, if the question is if we'll ever have another Newton, the answer is a definite and resounding "No". If another Einstein, then I believe yes, there will be plenty of other Einsteins.
- anonuser123456 4y ago>In his time and for a few hundred years after, Newton was consider the closest thing to God humanity had to offer. Gottfried Leibniz may have disagreed.