Quien ha sido la persona mas culta en la Historia de la humanidad?

John von Neumann (/vɒn ˈnɔɪmən/; Hungarian: Neumann János (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈnɒjmɒn ˈjaːnoʃ ˈlɒjoʃ]; December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian-American pure and applied mathematician, physicist, inventor, and polymath. He made major contributions to a number of fields, including mathematics (foundations of mathematics, functional analysis, ergodic theory, geometry, topology, and numerical analysis), physics (quantum mechanics, hydrodynamics, fluid dynamics and quantum statistical mechanics), economics (game theory), computing (Von Neumann architecture, linear programming, self-replicating machines, stochastic computing), and statistics.

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success dijo:

Y ni un triste Nóbel le dieron. Probablemente el Ser Humano que más ha hecho por la Sociedad y con más conocimientos de diversas ramas.

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chusto dijo:

Voy a dar varios nombres y de varios campos. Por culto entiendo a alguien que tenga grandes conocimientos sobre varios campos. Esto no significa que sea inteligente o un genio de un area concreta. Simplemente que saben todo lo que hay que saber sobre un area o varias.

Aqui mis propuestas de cultos.

Nabokov. Lo mas sorprendente de este hombre, es que siendo ruso, escribiera novelas excelentes en ingles. Ademas tenia un enorme conocimiento de la literatura de todos los tiempos y lo mas curioso, tambien es reconocido por sus trabajos de entomologia. Mariposas en especial.

Menendez Pelayo. Un erudito en todos los campos de las letras. Dominaba varias lenguas muertas, historia, literatura, poesia, etc. Escribio profusamente sobre todos estos temas, dejando una extensisima obra.

Lope de Vega. Un genio de la novela, la poesia y el teatro. Uno de los mas prolijos autores de toda la literatura de todos los tiempos.


Von Neuman. Uno de los mas grandes matematicos de todos los tiempos que hizo contribuciones a la mecanica cuantica, logica, computacion, ingenieria, etc. Genio en todos los campos relacionados con las matematicas.

Borges.. Un gran erudito sobre temas de todo tipo. De los pocos escritores en castellano que escribio cuentos sobre temas de ciencia y
matematicas.

Darwin. Un erudito del mundo natural. Su teoria de la evolucion es producto del amplisimo conocimientos que tenia sobre animales y plantas. Lo mismo escribio de la funcionalidad de los picos de los pinzones de las Galapagos, de la complejidad de la polinizacion de las orquideas, que de la importancia de los fosiles del Cambrico. Un genio y un erudito de las ciencias naturales.

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chusto dijo:

No le dieron el Nobel porque era un anticomunista feroz. Hasta Suecia llegaba el largo brazo de los sovieticos .

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seacock dijo:

von Neumann es probablemente el mayor genio de la Historia y uno se lee su biografía y logros científicos y técnicos y sólo puede arrodillarse y santiguarse ante tal monstruo de la naturaleza. El tío que inventó la bomba atómica y la arquitectura del ordenador moderno, con dos huevones.

Si escribimos hoy en el foro es gracias a él.

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By the end of 1927, von Neumann had published twelve major papers in mathematics, and by the end of 1929, thirty-two papers, at a rate of nearly one major paper per month.[28] His reputed powers of speedy, massive memorization and recall allowed him to recite volumes of information, and even entire directories, with ease.

Von Neumann's ability to instantaneously perform complex operations in his head stunned other mathematicians.[141] Eugene Wigner wrote that, seeing von Neumann's mind at work, "one had the impression of a perfect instrument whose gears were machined to mesh accurately to a thousandth of an inch."[142] Israel Halperin said: "Keeping up with him was ... impossible. The feeling was you were on a tricycle chasing a racing car."[143] Edward Teller wrote that von Neumann effortlessly outdid anybody he ever met,[144] and said "I never could keep up with him".[145]

Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim described von Neumann as the "fastest mind I ever met",[141] and Jacob Bronowski wrote "He was the cleverest man I ever knew, without exception. He was a genius."[147] George Pólya, whose lectures at ETH Zürich von Neumann attended as a student, said "Johnny was the only student I was ever afraid of. If in the course of a lecture I stated an unsolved problem, the chances were he'd come to me at the end of the lecture with the complete solution scribbled on a slip of paper."[148] Halmos recounts a story told by Nicholas Metropolis, concerning the speed of von Neumann's calculations, when somebody asked von Neumann to solve the famous fly puzzle:[149]

Two bicyclists start twenty miles apart and head toward each other, each going at a steady rate of 10 mph. At the same time a fly that travels at a steady 15 mph starts from the front wheel of the southbound bicycle and flies to the front wheel of the northbound one, then turns around and flies to the front wheel of the southbound one again, and continues in this manner till he is crushed between the two front wheels. Question: what total distance did the fly cover? The slow way to find the answer is to calculate what distance the fly covers on the first, northbound, leg of the trip, then on the second, southbound, leg, then on the third, etc., etc., and, finally, to sum the infinite series so obtained. The quick way is to observe that the bicycles meet exactly one hour after their start, so that the fly had just an hour for his travels; the answer must therefore be 15 miles. When the question was put to von Neumann, he solved it in an instant, and thereby disappointed the questioner: "Oh, you must have heard the trick before!" "What trick?" asked von Neumann, "All I did was sum the geometric series."[12]

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Herman Goldstine wrote: "One of his remarkable abilities was his power of absolute recall. As far as I could tell, von Neumann was able on once reading a book or article to quote it back verbatim; moreover, he could do it years later without hesitation. He could also tras*late it at no diminution in speed from its original language into English. On one occasion I tested his ability by asking him to tell me how A Tale of Two Cities started. Whereupon, without any pause, he immediately began to recite the first chapter and continued until asked to stop after about ten or fifteen minutes."[151]

"I have sometimes wondered whether a brain like von Neumann's does not indicate a species superior to that of man", said Nobel Laureate Hans Bethe of Cornell University.[29] "It seems fair to say that if the influence of a scientist is interpreted broadly enough to include impact on fields beyond science proper, then John von Neumann was probably the most influential mathematician who ever lived," wrote Miklós Rédei in "Selected Letters." [154]

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seacock dijo:

von Neumann es probablemente el mayor genio de la Historia y uno se lee su biografía y logros científicos y técnicos y sólo puede arrodillarse y santiguarse ante tal monstruo de la naturaleza. El tío que inventó la bomba atómica y la arquitectura del ordenador moderno, con dos huevones.

Si escribimos hoy en el foro es gracias a él.

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