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Pāṇini was probably the only man I would say was comparable to Einstein in intelligence.
by Konohamaru 4y ago
Pāṇini was probably the only man I would say was comparable to Einstein in intelligence.
- addaon 4y agoI can't imagine by what path you make that assessment, but... Any discussion of outliers in intelligence that mentions Einstein but not Newton is simply missing a difference of several standard deviations.
- satvikpendem 4y agoPhysics wasn't even Newton's main work, he did it on the side while his true passion was in alchemy. He just so happened discover color and light theory along the way, while also writing philosophical letters to Locke and Leibniz.
- addaon 4y agoYeah. It is not obvious to me that, across the total number of human minds produced so far, an outlier like Newton has any reasonable probability of existing.
- satvikpendem 4y agoWell there are a lot of polymaths though, Newton really is not that special. von Neumann, Feynman, Ben Franklin, Steve Jobs etc come to mind.
- slivanes 4y agoJobs does not deserve any mention among those other people. Jobs was a leader (tyrant by many accounts) and didn’t advance or discover anything?
- satvikpendem 4y agoYeah perhaps not, he wasn't a polymath. I'd say Elon is closer as a polymath than Jobs since at least the former actually learned about rocket and electric vehicle physics and engineering.
- quickthrower2 4y agoErdős, Feynman?
- canadianfella 4y agoJobs? What the hell?
- thouio423434 4y ago
- Konohamaru 4y agoAlmost all of the theorems in principa mathematica were known results by Newton's time. He synthesized it into a subject and found applications to physics.
- sriku 4y ago... and when you throw in the fact that Panini formulated his grammar was formulated at a time when there was no written form of Sanskrit ... it truly baffles me. So reliant on tools I am. Some authors have suggested that he likely used his students minds as "scratch pad" to hold temporary ideas expressed as succinct verses.
- perfecthjrjth 4y agoPāṇini was standing on the shoulders of the prior researchers/giants; same thing applies to Einstein or any future gaint.
- kamaal 4y ago