Being smart at math does not mean you are smart in other areas. Many math bofins suck at logic, language, business, creative thinking, common sense, imagination, understanding other abstractions apart from numbers, planning, speculative thinking, spacial thinking, objective thought, accumulation of knowledge, strategy(chess will display) and so much more in which others are genius at. There are criminals who are brilliant at what they do in so much that they develop whealth and thrive. There are people who are not that good at math but have powerful intuitive thinking that they are able to get rich and make a living through gambling and other unknown sources e.g Mikki Maze. There are people who sucked at school but are brilliant businessmen. Shake spear couldn't do math to save his life, but John Neumann would dream to write like him. The gifts of men are endless, but society only supports these gifts like math as it has importance to the growth of the whole economy, not just to help the individual. Find your gifts God has given you and be yourself. Become the best version of you, try your hand at everything and so you will discover who you really are and how you are to minister to the world while getting paid crazy amounts of money for it.

Thanks for your interesting comment Mike :) Hope you enjoyed the episode.

@@TheHumanPodcast. I have very much enjoyed this video! Thank You so much for posting!

@@MikeFuller-ok6ok So pleased to hear you enjoyed the episode! My pleasure. Hope you enjoy future episodes!

There is so many smart people. Einstein, Von Humboldt or Haber or many unknown Indian people.

@@stofjes4204 Thanks for the reply! There are people working on the unification with gravity into the quantum world who are the most intelligent people on the planet who I'd say 99% or more of the general population have never heard of.

Thanks for your interesting comment Lydell! Hope you enjoyed the show.

@@TheHumanPodcast. Yes, very engaging and thought provoking. 🙏🏽

@@LydellAaron Glad to hear you think so!

Thanks for your comment 😊 If you fancy checking out the full episode you’ll find at 5:49 that I ask Ananyo why he’s not a household name. If you enjoy the episode and would consider subscribing to support the show that would be very much appreciated 😊 Thanks, Joe

He wasn't that young when he died. 57 to be exact. Others like Alan Turing and Ramanujan died way younger.

Thanks for your comment. Wow very interesting. Why do you think there was no mention of either?

@@TheHumanPodcast. I was a Customer Engineer in the General Systems Division. I fixed minicomputers and keypunch related equipment. One of my fellow employees asked me, "Why do you want a computer at home?" Most guys were not interested in technology, it was just a "Good Job". Internally the place was different from the image it projected.

@@psikeyhackr6914 Fascinating, thanks for sharing this. I wonder why they never mentioned him..

Thanks for your comment! I like the metaphor.

Thanks for your comment and the recommendation! I recently heard Demis Hassabis recommend Labatut's book "When We Cease to Understand the World", so I'll definitely check your one out too. Hope you enjoyed the episode :)

Bronowski talks in his series The ascent of man about von Neumann as the absolut most intelligent man he ever met and Enrico Fermi as a distant second. By the way Fermi said about Neumann that his speed thinking was unfathomable

Thanks for your engagement here. I really enjoyed reading your fascinating comment. Hadn't heard of Walter Pitts. Thanks, Joe.

Lol he spoke just fine

Thanks for your comment, I appreciate the feedback. I'll bear this in mind as I continue to try and improve during future episodes! Joe.

This is a good suggestion of a rival genius! Thanks for your comment. Joe.

Hey David, thanks for your comment. Do you reckon he was? If not, who would you put above him? 😊

@@TheHumanPodcast. Von Neumann was probably in the top ten smartest people ever. The smartest person in history was probably Isaac Newton or Christian Heinrich Heineken.

Thanks for your comment. Would you say that both are definitely smarter than Von Neumann? Would be great to hear your thoughts why.

@@TheHumanPodcast. John von Newmann was a great mathematician and a talented computer scientist, but Newton and Einstein were not only great mathematicians (Newton invented calculus), but great physicists too. Newton discovered the three Laws of Motion, and Einstein defined Relativity, the relationship of energy to matter (E=MC²), and received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the Photoelectric Effect. Also, "smarter" isn't a scientific term.

@@davidhess6593 Interesting, thanks. Would you say Von Neumann made contributions to physics via quantum mechanism though? Also, if smarter isn't a scientific term, perhaps intelligence is?

@@TheHumanPodcast. Perhaps.