When talking about something or someone in superlatives, there are many factors to consider. For example, who can be said to be the smartest person in the world? The tallest can be measured, the heaviest can be weighed. And how to determine the degree of intelligence? Many are guided by the IQ.
The smartest people in the world
- Terence Tao, who has an IQ of 230, has been quick-witted and sharp-witted since childhood. For example, while all other two-year-olds could only boast of success in the art of speaking and walking, Tao performed arithmetic without difficulty. Perhaps it is he who is the smartest person in the world, because already at the age of nine he studied mathematics at the university program! Terence Tao became the youngest professor in the world, after which he began working at one of the universities in California. In addition, he managed to write and publish over 250 works: both scientific and research.
- Marilyn Vos Savant is one of the smartest women in the world. 228 is her IQ. The most amazing thing is that this value was recorded even when she was only ten years old. Of course, this result was recordedin the Guinness Book of Records. She lives in Missouri and is legally married to Robert Jarvik, a biologist. He is certainly not the smartest person in the world, although he is not stupid: he has an IQ of 180 points. Scientists have long established that about 50% of intelligence is inherited.
- IQ Christopher Hirata - no less than 225 points. Already at fourteen, he was able to easily enter the California Institute of Technology. Two years later, he showed significant success in the study of NASA projects related to the colonization of the planet Mars. Not least is the fact that Christopher, at the age of 22, received a Ph. D. in astrophysical sciences.
- Kim Ung-Yong is a young genius from Korea with an IQ of 210 points and for this reason got into the Guinness Book of Records. And for a reason: already at the age of two, he knew two languages!
So, Marilyn's son has an IQ of 164 points. Not as impressive as the mother, but well above average.
However, many believe that assessing a person's mind by IQ is the wrong tactic. Perhaps the title of a real intellectual deserves the one who made a revolutionary discovery in the field of science? Or the one who solved the problem that haunted the great minds of the whole world for a whole century? If so, then perhaps the smartest person in the world is our compatriot Grigory Perelman.
Many tried to solve the Poincaré hypothesis, but only Perelman could do it,posted on the Internet in 2003 materials that are the right decision. However, this fact is not at all interesting, although it also chills attention. Absolutely everyone was amazed by the fact that he refused a well-deserved award - one million dollars (this money was allocated by the Clay Institute of Mathematics). And this despite the fact that Perelman lives in an apartment in which, according to the neighbors, there is nothing more than a table, a chair, an old mattress and crowds of cockroaches. But what to do, they are the smartest people!
