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Besides Newton, my other contender is von Neumann. He also helped created so many fields and branches of knowledge. Einstein is actually overrated in my opini
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 3y ago
Besides Newton, my other contender is von Neumann.
He also helped created so many fields and branches of knowledge.
Einstein is actually overrated in my opinion, compared to Newton and von Neumann.
- deadbeeves 3y agoI was thinking the same. Reading about von Neumann is humbling. I don't think Einstein is overrated. The ideas he put forward were pretty out-of-the-box. von Neumann was for sure a more diverse thinker, but it's hard to argue that his contributions were more impactful than Einstein's.
- hackandthink 3y agoWould like to read: Ed Regis: Who Got Einstein's Office?: Eccentricity and Genius at the Institute for Advanced Study https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1088138.Who_Got_Einstein_s_Office_Eccentricity_and_Genius_at_the_Institute_for_Advanced_Study https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1088138.Who_Got_Einstein...
- fiforpg 3y agoIt is not that Einstein is overrated, but rather that many people entertaining the usual ideas about his genius are blissfully unaware of his contemporaries and their work: Poincaré, Lorentz, Minkowski. Then of course Newton had Hooke, who figured out gravitation for him, and Leibniz who had some of the same insights in calculus. History of science is richer and more entertaining than the Einstein this and Einstein that — with all due respect to the man.
- mmmm2 3y agoVon Neumann is the guy "regular" geniuses cite as otherworldly. - Foundations of computer architecture. - Game theory - Statistics - Quantum Mechanics I'm short selling him here. He also worked out the calculations for the explosive lens for the atomic bomb. My understanding is that was quite difficult and it's unclear who else could have done that.