Who is or was the most intelligent person in history?

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For me the most intelligent man in history is King Solomon.

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well for me Isaac is the one; Einstein copied the laws of Sir Isaac . Einstein modified it to form the theory of relativity.  

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I think the most intelligent man in the world is SAJED LASKAR
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Many people believe Einstein was, I believe that too. I believe that because he rewrote modern physics and he did it without any experiment. Most scientists see things and try to make laws to apply to that, Einstein used only theories and equations, his conclusions were proven after he stated them. To rewrite the basics of modern physics without any observations, just through theory and equations must be the most intelligent thing a man has ever done.
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In fact, Einstein works are not completely original. They were based on previous works as those of Hendrik Lorentz and Henri Poincaré. Considering that Einstein was bad in mathematics and Poincaré was a genius in mathematics, probably Poincaré was more intelligent.
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Hey ,who said Einstein was bad in mathematics,he was the best in that once in class his teacher could not solve a problem Einstein taught his teacher,for that he got scoldings.He was very good in Mathematics and physic and very bad in other subjects in his childhood days
 

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sahil dhingra b.tech in Electrical & electronics engg. is most intelligent person alive n ever existed, Einstein n all were good in one or two subjects but sahil is master of all subjects. currently living in united states, did his education in India.
got ITUS award for his intelligence.

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Since when the mathematical thought is the only one that counts? This question is almost impossible to answer, simply because the concept of intelligence is hard to define. There are all kinds of intelligence, emocional, racional, creative...
And to be honest I would'n choose a mathematician to represent intelligence, they can only handle numbers. I prefeer Leibniz instead of Einstein, at least he could apply their thoughts in other subjects too.
Most intelligent man in history... he is definitely one of these: Nietzsche, Da Vinci, Aristoteles, make your choise, but don't come out with Einstein, he's just a baby in the intelligence business.


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The most inteligent man alive today is Kim Ung-Yong (born March 7, 1963) is a Korean child prodigy. Kim was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records under "Highest IQ"; the book estimated the boy's score at about 210.[1] He was able to read Japanese, Korean, German, and English by his third birthday. On November 2, 1967, at age 4, he solved an advanced stochastic differential equation. Later, on Japanese television, he demonstrated his proficiency in Chinese, Spanish,[citation needed] Vietnamese, German, English, Japanese, and Korean. Even in childhood, he began to compose poetry.

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