{"id":3002097,"date":"2020-11-10T10:21:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T08:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iqpro.ai\/the-smartest-people-you-have-never-heard-of\/"},"modified":"2020-11-10T10:21:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T10:21:16","slug":"the-smartest-people-you-have-never-heard-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.iqpro.ai\/id\/the-smartest-people-you-have-never-heard-of\/","title":{"rendered":"The Smartest People You Have Never Heard of"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Trying to come up with a list of the smartest people who ever stepped foot on the planet is
\nanything but an easy task to accomplish. Intelligence is highly subjective and so are the skills that
\ndefine someone as smart. Being intelligent is one thing, using that intelligence to in some way
\nadvance humanity, is something entirely different. At an IQ level, anything above 140 is generally
\nconsidered near genius. Nonetheless, here is a list of some of the brainiest unsung humans who
\never lived.<\/p>\n

William Sidis<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"William_Sidis\"<\/p>\n

William James Sidis was an American child prodigy said to have an IQ between 250 and 300,
\npossibly the highest score ever. Apart from his above-average math skills, which allowed William
\nto join Harvard at the age of 11, he also spoke 40 languages. Sadly, William did not live up to
\nexpectations and matured into an average human being, landing mediocre jobs and getting into
\ntrouble with the law on several occasions.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Judit Polg\u00e1r<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Judit
\nWith an IQ of 170, Judit Polg\u00e1r was a Hungarian chess player who is widely considered to be the
\nbest female chess player of all time. At the age of 15 years and 4 months, Polg\u00e1r won the title of
\nGrandmaster, at the time the youngest to have done so. She is also the youngest person to ever
\nbreak into the FIDE top 100 players rating list. She was the top-rated woman in the world from
\nJanuary 1989 until her retirement on 13 August 2014.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Philip Emeagwali<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Philip Emeagwali is a Nigerian computer scientist who won the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize for priceperformance in high-performance computing applications, by using an innovative mathematical
\nformula and applying it in an oil reservoir modeling calculation. With an IQ of 190, Philip was
\nvoted as the greatest African scientist of all time. As an interesting sidenote, his math work is
\noften considered as being influential in the construction of the internet.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Srinivasa Ramanujan<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"
\nSrinivasa Ramanujan was an Indian mathematician who made significant contributions to
\nanalysis, number theory, infinite series and continued fractions, together with solutions to
\nmathematical problems then deemed unknowable. Ramanujan, who had almost no proper
\ntraining in mathematics, initially developed his own research in isolation. His estimated IQ was
\n185.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Hypatia of Alexandria<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Hypatia was a Greek astronomer, philosopher and mathematician who lived in Egypt, then part
\nof the Eastern Roman Empire. Although heralded by Pandrosion, another Alexandrine female
\nmathematician, she is the first female mathematician whose life is reasonably well recorded.
\nWith an estimated IQ of 170-190, she was brutally murdered by a group of Christian fanatics
\nafter being accused of witchcraft.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Gottfried Leibniz<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a renowned German polymath and one of the most significant
\nlogicians, mathematicians and natural philosophers of the Enlightenment and is best known for
\ninventing calculus. In philosophy, Leibniz is most illustrious for his optimism – his conclusion that
\nour universe is, in a limited sense, the best possible one that God could have created. Leibniz’s
\nIQ estimates range from 182 to 205.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Andrew Wiles<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"
\nSir Andrew John Wiles is an English mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at
\nthe University of Oxford, specialized in number theory. In 1995, Wiles verified a 358-year-old
\nmathematical theory called Fermat’s Last Theorem, which until then was registered in the
\nGuinness Book of World Records as the “most difficult math problem” in the world. He was
\nappointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2000. Sir Andrew Wiles is
\nsaid to have an IQ of 170.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Emanuel Swedenborg<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"
\nEmanuel Swedenborg was a Swedish theologian, scientist, philosopher and mystic. He is best
\nknown for his book on the afterlife, Heaven and Hell. In 1741 he began to experience dreams
\nand visions which concluded in a “spiritual arising” in which he received a revelation that he was
\nappointed by Jesus Christ to write The Heavenly Doctrine to reform Christianity.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Christopher Hirata<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"
\nChristopher Hirata is an American cosmologist and astrophysicist who was hired by NASA at the
\nage of 16 to do some research on the colonization of Mars. Christopher was only 13 when this
\nchild prodigy won the gold medal in 1996 at the International Physics Olympiad. He also received
\nhis PhD under the supervision of Uro\u0161 Seljak in 2005 from Princeton University in Astrophysics.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Kim Ung-Yong<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"
\nKim Ung-Yong is a South Korean professor and former child prodigy said to hold the highest IQ
\nscore (210) according to the Guinness World Records. At the age of one, Kim had learned both
\nthe Korean alphabet and 1,000 Chinese characters by studying the Thousand Character Classic,
\na 6th-century Chinese poem. At three years old, he began to solve calculus problems. At 5, Kim
\nhad acquired astonishing linguistic skills and could speak Korean, English, French, German and
\nJapanese.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Ainan Cawley<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"
\nAinan Celeste Cawley is a Singaporean boy prodigy who, according to his parents, had said his
\nfirst word when he was two weeks old, could walk at six months of age and build difficult
\nsentences by his first birthday. Cawley gave his first public speech at the age of six and at seven
\nyears and one month of age, he had passed the GCSE chemistry and studied chemistry at the
\nSingapore Polytechnic a year later. At the age of 9, he was able to recite pi to 518 decimal places
\nand could remember the periodic table.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Christopher Langan<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"
\nChristopher Michael Langan is an American autodidact who is considered an intellectual prodigy.
\nABC\u2019s 20\/20 estimated that Langan’s IQ is anywhere between 195 and 210 dubbing him what
\nmost journalists consider as the smartest man in America. Growing up, Christopher Langan
\nquickly showed above-average skills: he could speak at six months of age, read by his third
\nbirthday and even question the existence of God by age five. He obtained a perfect score on his
\nSAT, despite having fallen asleep during the test. He is an avid learner, regardless of the subject,
\nand can study math, languages and philosophy for long periods of time each day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Trying to come up with a list of the smartest people who ever stepped foot on the planet is anything but an easy task to accomplish. Intelligence is highly subjective and so are the skills that define someone as smart. Being intelligent is one thing, using that intelligence to in some way advance humanity, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3002099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[588,582,594],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3002097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-contents","category-word-wide-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.iqpro.ai\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.iqpro.ai\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.iqpro.ai\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.iqpro.ai\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.iqpro.ai\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3002097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.iqpro.ai\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.iqpro.ai\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3002099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.iqpro.ai\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3002097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.iqpro.ai\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3002097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.iqpro.ai\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3002097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}