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Part four (of four) of a meta-analysis ranking of the world's 37 greatest geniuses, child prodigies, and thinkers ever said to have had an IQ of 200 or above, with a countdown to the #1 all-time smartest person ever:

http://www.eoht.info/page/IQ%3A+200%2B

For everyone who keeps posting "where is so and so?", I have merged the 300 Cox geniuses (with IQs) and the 100 Buzan geniuses (with IQs) and am slowly expanding on this combined list to make a re-ranked "400+ greatest geniuses of all time by IQ" list:

http://www.eoht.info/page/Genius+IQs

Please submit your votes (with "realistic" estimated IQ) below, after reviewing this growing under-construction list.

Cattell 1000:

http://www.eoht.info/page/Cattell+1000

References (page):

http://www.eoht.info/page/IQ%3A+200%2B+%28references%29

Candidates (other/tentative):

http://www.eoht.info/page/IQ%3A+200+%28%C2%B1%29+candidates

Goethe pronunciations:

http://inogolo.com/query.php?desc=571&key=1

http://www.goethesociety.org/media/goethe.wav

Euler pronunciation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07HCb0eR9iY

Euler genealogy (to see how Clausius fits into the big picture):

http://www.eoht.info/page/Euler+genealogy

About William Sidis (as character for Good Will Hunting):

http://www.eoht.info/page/Good+Will+Hunting+%28William+Sidis%29

To see how Goethe's 1799 elective affinities theory fits correctly into the big picture of modern physical science, in regards to corroboration and validity, see the following timelines:

Human thermodynamics pioneers (500+):

http://www.eoht.info/page/HT+pioneers

Human chemistry pioneers (70+):

http://www.eoht.info/page/HC+pioneers

Human molecular science pioneers (120+):

http://www.eoht.info/page/HMS+pioneers

Lastly, a newly-started page for a tentative possible future video entitled "IQ 150+ | Smartest woman ever", see link below, is under construction:

http://tiny.cc/5mt1j

Recent JHT article (2011) expanding on Goethe's affinities theories:

http://tiny.cc/9w2c3

Comment in threads, if you are in need of more info.

Libb Thims (history):

http://www.eoht.info/page/Libb+Thims+%28history%29

Groupings of the elite geniuses via the term "polymath", "last person to know everything", "universal genius", and "last universal genius":

http://www.eoht.info/page/polymath

http://www.eoht.info/page/Last+person+to+know+everything

http://www.eoht.info/page/Universal+genius

http://www.eoht.info/page/Last+universal+genius

The last of which, inclusive to only Leibniz, Goethe, and Helmholtz, being the most impressive.

New links:

http://www.eoht.info/page/Greatest+mathematician+ever

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  • if Goethe's work that showed how human relationships are similar to chemical reactions was so great to earn him the #1 spot (and I'm not saying it wasn't a work of pure genius), how come I have never heard of this, when I have heard of the other geniuses contributions. How did you even prove it was accurate? How do you measure numerically human qualities such as attraction? What is the signifigance of the work?

  • @Jshect Re: “how do you measure numerical quantities such as attraction”, that’s a large subject, to say the least. Leon Winiarski, who taught a course on this at the University of Geneva (1894-1900), was the first to outline this thermodynamically. Google “human thermodynamic instruments” to learn more (as to instruments). Re: “what is the significance”, this is the stuff they will be teaching children in the year 3,000.

  • @Jshect Re2: “how come I have never heard of this”, another reason (complexity aside), is that the bottom line of Goethe’s theory is that morality is based not on the Bible, as told by God, but on physical chemistry, as told by the Clausius inequality. Most of the modern world is God-based (to remind us all) and there is great resistance to these types of Bible-overthrowing theories (evolution as a case in point). Google “Rossini debate” to see this resistance on the front lines.

  • @Jshect Re3: “how come I have never heard of this”, the third dominate reason (religion and two cultures aside) is complexity: you have to be a relative expert in chemical thermodynamics to understand (in equation detail) what Goethe is saying in Elective Affinities. The last real expert in chemical thermodynamics (the hardest of all sciences) was Gilbert Lewis, and no one as of yet has come forward to fill his shoes, let alone taken a digression into applications in the humanities.

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  • No John Von Neumann?

  • @dekippiesip : Einstein learned calculus at the age of twelve. The mathematical core of the photoeletric effect, alone, is more complex than calculus, newtonian laws and the laws of optics altogheter. Newton was more influential, because he propulsionated the scientific revolution, but in absolute terms, einstein far outweighted him.

  • How were these I.Q. values evaluated for people who lived before I.Q. tests were invented?

    For that matter, where do you go to take I.Q. tests like the ones you were using in this video?

    All the stuff online except possibly MENSA and High I.Q. society are fake.

    I once scored 144 on High I.Q. society's test around 2001, 21 yrs old at the time.

    I was scored at 122, for verbal I.Q. only, by a psychologist, but I think the tests are not diverse enough to test me fairly.

  • I would define the smartest person in the world as the one who can make the biggest positive impact on humanity. That person hasn't been identified here, it will take perhaps another hundred years for the world to truly understand his enormous accomplishments that are presently being realized. That's usually the way it is anyway, those who see so far beyond the rest of the world are too often not understood as even genius. It will take time.

  • Wow, I really enjoyed these videos. Thank you so much for posting them.

  • My favorite Goethe quote is from his book Theory of Colours published in 1810 which reads

    "I am like a bazillion times smarter than you, neener neener neener."

    -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • "mis happen head" ...it's pronounced "miss shapen"

  • @MarceloMuzzi IQ has nothing to do with accomplishments

  • @Maurbel I concur

  • @Maurbel Goethe wasn’t Muslim, but he did study the Islamic religion, as well as nearly every other subject of knowledge. In the end, however, at the age of 81 he commented in retrospect: “I have found no confession of faith to which I could ally myself without reservation”. Goethe’s religion was a mixture of nature and knowledge; as he said so himself:

    “He who possesses science and art,

    Possesses religion as well;

    He who possesses neither of these,

    Had better have religion.”

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