10 Smartest Living People on Earth

from a man who taught himself mathematics at the age of three to another who beat a computer in a game of chess we take a look at 10 of the smartest living people on earth number 10 Judit Polgar Pulgar was a child prodigy becoming a grandmaster at the age of eleven and at present is the only chess player in the world chess Federation's top 100 players list she has touted as the most talented female chess player of all time polgár is the only woman to have won a game from a current world number-one player and has defeated nine current or former world champions and apparently polgár was raised by her father as a project to prove that geniuses are made not born well sir we got your point number 9 Chris harada harada has an IQ of 225 at age 3 he entertained himself at the grocery store by calculating the total bill items in his parents shopping cart item by item by weight quantity discounts and don't forget the sales tax at the age of 4 he became a part of Caltech at just 12 he took up college-level courses in physics and calculus and won a gold medal at international physics Olympiad at 13 he is currently teaching astrophysics at California Institute of Technology and he's only 31 years old Harada deserves a mention on the list for his achievement as the youngest American at 13 to win a gold medal in the International physics Olympiad in 1996 number 8 Stephen Hawking guest appearances on TV shows such as The Simpsons Futurama and Star Trek The Next Generation have helped cement English astrophysicist Stephen Hawking's place in the pop culture domain Hawking was born in 1942 and in 1959 when he was 17 years old he received a scholarship to read physics and chemistry at Oxford University he earned a bachelor's degree in 1962 and then moved on to Cambridge to study cosmology diagnosed with motor neuron disease at the age of 21 Hawking became depressed and almost gave up on his studies however in fired by his relationship with his fiancee and soon-to-be first wife Jane Wilde he returned to his academic pursuits and obtained his ph.d in 1965 Hawking is perhaps best known for his pioneering theories on black holes and his best-selling 1988 book a brief history of time number 7 Terence Tao during a family gathering the then two-year-old would teach a five-year-old child arithmetic in English at nine he had reached college level and obtained a master's degree at 16 and in 1988 aged just 13 became the youngest gold medal recipient in international mathematical Olympiad history a record that still stands today he has won several awards and is the youngest professor at UCLA he is also one of only two children in the history of the John Hopkins study of exceptional talent program to have achieved a score of 700 or more in the SAT math section while just eight years old number six Evangelos cat tsiolis Greek doctor of Angelo Scott tsiolis made headlines in his home country when he won the world genius directory's 2013 genius of the Year award according to the site Katz oles IQ is a remarkable 198 he apparently scored 205 on the stanford-binet scale with a standard deviation of 16 born in Iowa Nia in 1976 Katz Eolas studied at Greece's Aristotle University of Thessaloniki earning a master's in science and medical research and technology a master's degree in philosophy and a PhD in psychopharmacology he is currently a member of 28 i q-- societies including the exclusive giga society only one in 30 billion people will match his intelligence levels number five Ruth Lawrence born in 1971 British mathematician and former child prodigy Ruth Lawrence made many headlines in 1985 when at just age 13 she obtained a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Oxford University gaining a starred first another degree this time in physics in 1990 she was made a junior fellow at Harvard after a stint at the University of Michigan she took on an associate professorship in 1997 Lawrence is currently an associate professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Einstein Institute of mathematics and investigates algebraic topology and knot theory number four Richard Rosner u.s. television writer and pseudo-celebrity Richard Rosner is an unusual case you'd be amazed by this guy's career as he claims to have been employed as a stripper doorman male model and a waiter he has written for several TV shows such as Jimmy Kimmel Live and is famous for his appearance on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire he also has a bit of a competitive streak at despite placing second in the world genius directories 2013 genius of the Year award behind our previously mentioned psychiatrist Evangelos katz ulis he took to reading for 20 hours a day in order to try and outdo him number three edward witten string theory and theory quantum gravity and supersymmetry do these words sound familiar to you well this man has contributed plenty to these as a physicist he has been described as the most brilliant physicist of his generation and the world's greatest living theoretical physicist he's also part of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world with accolades like the Fields Medal the Dirac prize the Albert Einstein metal and the nemours prize in mathematics number two Christopher Langan 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 what's even more intriguing is that he dropped out of college and then worked as a doorman to eventually develop his cognitive theoretic model of the universe number one garry kasparov he is Russia's chess grandmaster who became the youngest undisputed world champion at the age of 22 he beat the then champion and told me Kasparov after a head-on battle in 1985 Kasparov held the official world title recognized by the International Chess Federation until 1993 he has held the position of world number one ranked player for three times longer than anyone else and in 1996 he famously took on IBM computer deep blue winning with a score of four to two he has a reported IQ of 190 if you want to see more content like this subscribe for new videos every day you

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Published: Thu Dec 17 2015

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[u/ecka_26]

So to be a genius you have to excel in either chess, math or physics