Who is the most intelligent person in the world's history? - Quora

Answer: The highest known is Terence Tao with a recorded IQ of 230 receiving a.​.​.​ Top Stories from Your Feed Your Quora Digest Who is the most intelligent person in the world's history? Kelly La Rue, My life is unique only in its variety 1.8k votes The highest known is Terence Tao with a recorded IQ of 230 receiving a Masters degree at 16 and a PhD at 21 to being teaching at the University of California, Los Angeles a... Read More » Middle Ages: What's so difficult about maintaining a standing army that the Romans could but their successors in the Middle Ages couldn't? Stephen Tempest 539 votes Standing armies are very, very expensive. You're taking a group of fit, healthy young men - the people who normally would be the most productive part of your workforce, eng... Read More » What was the wealthiest society in history, with the least income inequality? Alex Tabarrok, Economist, MarginalRevolution, TED ta... 646 votes As already noted there are a variety of measures of inequality and different possible answers depending on tradeoffs. Note, for example, that a country with one rich person... Read More » Who is the greatest person that history has 'forgotten'? Joe Geronimo Martinez 333 votes Well this is from a Western perspective. He's probably better known in Asia. Akbar (the Great) (1556-1605) ... Read More » Which country, if any, is poised to become the next global superpower? Alex Song, Hedge Fund Analyst 1.3k votes If you asked people in the 1600s who would be the dominant global power, most would have said Spain. They would have been proven wrong within 100 years. If you asked people ...  Read More » What does war smell like? Jon Davis, Writer and Blogger on Military, Veter... 592 votes I was deployed to Iraq's Al Anbar province. This is a particularly arid desert region which is important to understand the next point. When stepping off the plane you are i... Read More » Why can't programmers.. program? Jayesh Lalwani, Programmer, Dad, Gentleman...ProDaddaMan 397 votes The problem isn't that programmers cannot program. The problem is we haven't figured out how to identify programmers from non-programmers, short of asking them to program.... Read More » What are the things that a programmer must know (obviously besides programming languages)? Manu Andrei, Student 588 votes Actually, you will come to realize that knowing programming languages is the least important skill a programmer must master. -The most important quality of a programmer is... Read More » Winston Churchill once said that the "empires of the future will be empires of the mind." What does this mean? Robert Frost, engineer/instructor at NASA 456 votes Back up a little and read the paragraphs immediately preceding that quote: "...Gentlemen, I make you my compliments. I do not wish to exaggerate, but you are the head-stre...  Read More » What group of people has (or had) customs, traditions, or beliefs that typical people living in the 21st century would find most strange? Hung Lee, Co-founder & CEO of Workshape.io 395 votes Here are a 5 examples of cultural practices that 'typical people living in the 21st century might find 'most strange'. 1. Culture: The Aleuts and the Inuit, Arctic Circ... Read More »   Read More in Your Feed This email was sent by Quora (650 Castro Street #450, Mountain View, CA 94041). Quora is the best answer to any question. Unsubscribe from this email.