10 most intelligent people in the world and what they've done with their lives

[Billynghialam]

1.
Terrence Tao has a verified IQ of 230.

Gifted with an amazing IQ of 230, Terence Tao makes it to this list of most intelligent people of the world. He is an Australian-born Chinese American mathematician working in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, additive combinatorics, ergodic Ramsey theory, random matrix theory, and analytic number theory. At just 8 years, Tao achieved a score of 760 on the pre-1995 SAT, received a Ph.D from Princeton at 20 and at 24 became the youngest ever full professor at UCLA. He received inspiring awards like the 2003 clay research award, the Bôcher Memorial Prize in 2002 and Salem Prize in 2000 are just few of them.

2.
Christopher Hirata has a verified IQ of 225.

Christopher Hirata was genius from his childhood. When just 13, he made waves by getting a gold medal at the international physics Olympiad. At the age of 16, he was working with NASA in its mission of conquering Mars. At the age of 22, he obtained his Ph.D at the Princeton University. Hirata is an authorized child genius and currently he is teaching astrophysics in the CIT California Institute of Technology.

3.
Kim Ung-Yong has a verified IQ of 210.

With a verified IQ of 210, Korean civil engineer Ung Yong is considered the master in child prodigy. At the age of 6 months he was able to speak and understand Korean and other languages. At the age of 3 years, he could read several languages already, including Korean, Japanese, German and English, as well as solve complex calculus problems as exposed live on Japanese television. He was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records under “Highest IQ”.

4.
Evangelos Katsioulis is alleged to have an IQ of 198.

Known for his high intelligence test scores, Dr. Evangelos Katsioulis is a Greek national who works as a medical doctor and psychiatrist. He has earned degrees in philosophy, medical research technology and psychopharmacology. He is the founder of the World Intelligence Network (WIN), an international organization of high IQ societies and of the organization AAAA.GR, a pioneer voluntary team for the detection and support of gifted individuals in Greece. Katsioulis is also a good painter and a decent swimmer.

5.
Christopher Michael Langan has a verified IQ of 195.

Christopher Langan is an American autodidact with an IQ reported to be between 195 and 210. He has been described as “the smartest man in America” as well as “the smartest man in the world” by the media. He began talking at six months, and taught himself to read when he was three. He has developed a “theory of the relationship between mind and reality” which he calls the “Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe” (CTMU).

6.
Rick Rosner is alleged to have an IQ of 192.

Gifted with an amazing IQ of 192, by simply looking, Rick Rosner would not be thought of as one of the most intelligent people in the world. He has a rough and tough demeanor, having spent a number of years as a bar bouncer. He is an American television producer best known for creating the television show CHiPs. Rosner later developed a portable satellite television in partnership with DirecTV.

7.
Mislav Predavec is alleged to have an IQ of 192.

The Croatian maths professor Mislav Predavec ranked 7th on the list of the 10 most intelligent people in the world. He is the founder and president of the GenerIQ Society, an elite organization of some of the most intelligent people in the world. He is also the owner and director of a trade company.

8.
Marilyn vos Savant has a verified IQ of 190.

In 1985, The Guinness Book of World Records accepted vos Savant’s IQ score of 190, and according to marilynvossavant.com, crowned her the woman with the highest IQ for five consecutive years — she has tested as high as 228 on various IQ tests. She is a popular columnist for Parade Magazine. Through “Ask Marilyn,” readers can send puzzles and questions on different subjects for vos Savant to solve and answer.

[Billynghialam]

9.
Philip Emeagwali is alleged to have an IQ of 190.

Philip Emeagwali is a Nigerian-born engineer, mathematician, computer scientist and geologist who was one of two winners of the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize, a prize from the IEEE, for his use of a Connection Machine supercomputer to help detect petroleum fields.

10.
Garry Kasparov is alleged to have an IQ of 190.

Garry Kasparov has totally amazed the world, when he played to a draw against a chess computer that could calculate three million positions per second in 2003. He is a chess grandmaster from Russia. At the age of 22, he became the youngest undisputed world champion by defeating then-champion Anatoly Karpov.

[UACdarknova]

But what is their raw dl?

[Broteins]

...and only 1/10 is a woman.

[Dr.Seltsam]

Wherer is Jason Genove in this list?

[BRAHzzers]

in to see #10 go against kadafi the undisputed champion of catford.

[Talason]

being anything like these people would be simply incredible

[Iamasupersayin]

St.Ausustine ftw

[CHARBACK]

Most of these "high IQ" people are just good at taking tests and memorizing chit and go on to get their PHD and just be an average college professor and never contribute anything to humanity worthy of their high IQ.

Some of these people like Langan and Rosner are huge frauds too.

[EnriqueBrah]

i wonder what its like in their heads

future genius

interesting how at moments he seems to picture the numbers in front of him

[ChiBearsfan]

...and only 1/10 is a woman.

she also has a penis, like whey2exotic

[ukland]

and what good have they brought to earth?

[Billynghialam]

Most of these "high IQ" people are just good at taking tests and memorizing chit and go on to get their PHD and just be an average college professor and never contribute anything to humanity worthy of their high IQ.

Some of these people like Langan and Rosner are huge frauds too.

he played to a draw against a chess computer that could calculate three million positions per second in 2003

yeaaa hes not that smart lmao

also,

dont you have to be smart to be a good test taker? lmao at scoring perfect scores and graduating from harvard at the age of 20 and being called dumb

[sickh11]

she also has a penis, like whey2exotic

srs?

Spoiler!

[Dan_S]

Wish that actually stated what most of them were doing. Most are either teachers or "started a smart person foundation."

I read an article last month about Marilyn vos Savant.

The Time Everyone “Corrected” the World’s Smartest Woman

In September 1990, Marilyn vos Savant devoted one of her columns to a reader’s question, which presented a variation of the Monty Hall Problem:


“Suppose you’re on a game show, and you’re given the choice of three doors. Behind one door is a car, behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say #1, and the host, who knows what’s behind the doors, opens another door, say #3, which has a goat. He says to you, "Do you want to pick door #2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice of doors?”

“Yes; you should switch,” she replied. “The first door has a 1/3 chance of winning, but the second door has a 2/3 chance.”

Though her answer was correct, a vast swath of academics responded with outrage. In the proceeding months, vos Savant received more than 10,000 letters -- including a pair from the Deputy Director of the Center for Defense Information, and a Research Mathematical Statistician from the National Institutes of Health -- all of which contended that she was entirely incompetent:


You blew it, and you blew it big! Since you seem to have difficulty grasping the basic principle at work here, I’ll explain. After the host reveals a goat, you now have a one-in-two chance of being correct. Whether you change your selection or not, the odds are the same. There is enough mathematical illiteracy in this country, and we don’t need the world’s highest IQ propagating more. Shame!
Scott Smith, Ph.D.
University of Florida

May I suggest that you obtain and refer to a standard textbook on probability before you try to answer a question of this type again?
Charles Reid, Ph.D.
University of Florida

I am sure you will receive many letters on this topic from high school and college students. Perhaps you should keep a few addresses for help with future columns.
W. Robert Smith, Ph.D.
Georgia State University

You are utterly incorrect about the game show question, and I hope this controversy will call some public attention to the serious national crisis in mathematical education. If you can admit your error, you will have contributed constructively towards the solution of a deplorable situation. How many irate mathematicians are needed to get you to change your mind?
E. Ray Bobo, Ph.D.
Georgetown University

You made a mistake, but look at the positive side. If all those Ph.D.’s were wrong, the country would be in some very serious trouble.
Everett Harman, Ph.D.
U.S. Army Research Institute

You are the goat!
Glenn Calkins
Western State College

Maybe women look at math problems differently than men.
Don Edwards
Sunriver, Oregon

The outcry was so tremendous that vos Savant was forced to devote three subsequent columns to explaining why her logic was correct. Even in the wake of her well-stated, clear responses, she continued to be berated. “I still think you’re wrong,” wrote one man, nearly a year later. “There is such a thing as female logic.”

[CHARBACK]

he played to a draw against a chess computer that could calculate three million positions per second in 2003

yeaaa hes not that smart lmao

Kasparov easily the smartest one on the list. Most of them are frauds though.

Steve Woz, Tesla, Einstein, Newton, Elon Musk much better list.

[Stynieke]

would not wanna be that smart srs, don't ask me why

[Billynghialam]

Kasparov easily the smartest one on the list. Most of them are frauds though.

Steve Woz, Tesla, Einstein, Newton, Elon Musk much better list.

these are people who are alive tho....

[gtg]

Rick Rosner has extrem ocd and visits gym 50 times a week. Plus he trains himself everday to beat his iq record.

.http://orzzzz.com/worlds-second-smar...e-smarter.html

[CHARBACK]

these are people who are alive tho....

There are plenty of people alive a lot smarter. Most of your list is frauds srs. Especially Langan and Rosner, but also Savant and Emeagwali and maybe Kim Ung-yong.

They got lucky just blew away an IQ test when they were 12 or train to do well on IQ tests.

[PKneyr]

So they haven't invented ****?

[Slacker23]

and what good have they brought to earth?

Terence Tao is the foremost current mathematical researcher, as well as pretty much the first universal mathematician since Poincare. He also won the Fields medal (math equivalent of the Nobel) at the age of 30...

[kusok]

lol do these ****s even lift???


Also, Donald Trump IQ - $10'000'000'000 in the bank.


Beat that IQ score you pencil chewing useless math dweebs.

[Kraken]

...and only 1/10 is a woman.

Noticed this as well. I wonder if part of this is that women make up a smaller population, that many countries will not recognize women for certain things, and perhaps that women are still playing catch up in terms of numbers going to college and having careers.

[masterfulsky]

so most are teachers who score well on an iq test.
None of them seem to have made a major impact on the world either in business or through inventions

[streetlethaleg6]

But what is their raw dl?

that

[brahvissimo]

...and only 1/10 is a woman.

Yeah but that's only because they have been oppressed by men into having low IQ's

[Billynghialam]

so most are teachers who score well on an iq test.
None of them seem to have made a major impact on the world either in business or through inventions

Lmao if you think all professors do is lecture, they are still researching outside of teaching, funded by the college they teach

all but 3 have created or invented something or have furthered their field of research

one of the 3 that didn't is a master at chess, and the other 2 are kind of bleh

[CommonPheasant]

Noticed this as well. I wonder if part of this is that women make up a smaller population, that many countries will not recognize women for certain things, and perhaps that women are still playing catch up in terms of numbers going to college and having careers.

She's a mediocre newspaper columnist and I'm pretty sure the reports of her great intellect are greatly exaggerated.

Also, an insane Bobby Fischer absolutely destroyed Kasparov in chess.



Intelligence isn't everything I guess.

[CommonPheasant]

Lmao if you think all professors do is lecture, they are still researching outside of teaching, funded by the college they teach

Yep, and most of the major advancements in civilization have foundations in academic research. Private industry may have taken these concepts and run with them, but they rarely develop them.