Einstein is likely overrated in terms of pure IQ. But you cannot underestimate his creativity and confidence in pure reason. Lorentz had come up with the equa

Einstein is likely overrated in terms of pure IQ. But you cannot underestimate his creativity and confidence in pure reason. Lorentz had come up with the equations of Special Relativity decades before Einstein. Einstein was the only person who "thought outside the box" and applied Lorentz's equations to relativity instead of Electrodynamics alone. An example of Einstein's type of genius is in Bose-Einstein condensates, which can be described simply as lasers made of matter as well as photons. Bose came up with equations that described photons. This work led to the fundamentals of lasers. Einstein recognized that the equations could be applied to matter as well. This was only experimentally verified within the last 20 years. You can't really compare geniuses, because each is different. Wiles worked with great determination on one very difficult problem so his genius is really one of perseverance. I don't know how to rank that against Einstein's rebellious creativity. It's apples and oranges.