Surely it is a mathematician. I think maybe one of these guys:
Kurt Godel
Leibniz
Edmund Husserl
Plato
Anaxagoras
2006-10-21 15:07:06 · 18 answers · asked by Jake 8 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
Definately Plato, but i know if i thought half as much as he did, i would be crazy.
2006-10-21 15:57:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are an incredible number of answers, and not necessary would the person be a mathematician. People such as Shakespeare, Mozart, DaVinci and George Lucas would easily compete with mathematicians.
Dr Carl Sagan landed a spaceships on Mars.
Isaac Newton invented calculus over night to solve a centuries old question.
Bill Gates created Microsoft.
These are incalculable contributions to human knowledge.
Generally, Steven Hawking is considered to be the finest thinker of today, in Mathematics and Physics.
For my vote of history's greatest "sublime thinker", I would go with:
Johannes Kepler.
All of modern physics, (even Einstein's ideas) are based on the revolutionary development of relativity theory, unparalleled in breakthrough applied imagination.
2006-10-21 15:28:28 · answer #2 · answered by warmspirited 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think Einstein was the smartest guy ever. Maybe Galileo, Da Vinci, Hawking and any number of others might be smarter and certainly there are many better in mathematics. But in terms of being a sublime thinker, dreaming up unforeseen phenomena, mathematically explaining them, and then years later being shown to be (in all probability) correct, then I have to be perplexed as why you didn't include Einstein. Bose-Einstein condensate and the cosmological constant immediately come to mind. I think he's most sublime, even though you didn't include him.
2006-10-21 15:15:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The one who realized he was not smart enough to answer this question.....lol no really good question but not fair because any answer given would be based on oppinion only. I say this because all great minds think alike.......or so they say.....i believe that all that you suggested are truly great thinkers but so were some of the great philosophers,politicians,school teachers etc....i believe that it would be unfair to give ALL of the credit to one person because somewhere along the lines they were influenced and or taught by someone else. Good luck on your quest for the answer to your question. (for some reason it wont show the l in school teachers above.hmmmmm the great mind who wrote this program).
2006-10-21 15:13:56 · answer #4 · answered by cell 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Einstein
2006-10-21 15:08:16 · answer #5 · answered by BM0027 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
King Soloman
2006-10-21 15:09:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
George Bush
I go for Leonardo Da Vinci
2006-10-21 18:04:25 · answer #7 · answered by gjmb1960 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow! There are so many. Plato, Pythagoras, Fibonacci, DaVinci, Newton, DeCartes, Einstein, Hawking, the list goes on and on.
2006-10-21 16:07:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My vote goes to: Robert Goddard, Father of Modern Rocketry.
I know, I know, rocketry falls under Science - Physics in particular. But has it ever occured to you that Math, like Physics, is a science?
2006-10-21 17:50:59 · answer #9 · answered by Kevin D 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with TBG:
Spiritually speaking: JESUS.
But He is "hors-concours".
So, I think that it may be Salomon, king of Israel.
Or: Leonardo da Vinci.
P. S.: Jesus did not want to get off the cross. "He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His wounds we are healed."
2006-10-21 15:13:24 · answer #10 · answered by Colorado 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋