Genius refers to someone who shows unprecedented insight in one or more fields. They use their talents to heal the desolation of the world.
Leon Battista Alberti was an Italian architect, architectural theorist, writer, poet, philosopher, and cryptographer during the Renaissance. He is known as a truly representative architect of the Renaissance period, who raised the construction of Renaissance architecture to a theoretical level. He wrote "On Architecture", published in 1485, which was the first complete theoretical work on architecture at that time. With the help of Gutenberg's printing technology, he promoted the development of the Renaissance movement. Alberti's antique architectural design techniques are rigorous and pure. In his book "On Architecture", he discussed the possibility of architecture from the perspective of a Renaissance humanist and proposed that it should be based on Euclid's mathematical principles. Proportionate rearrangements are made on basic collective systems such as circles and squares to find the "golden section of beauty" in architecture. He used a variety of column types in the construction of Palazzo Rucellai, and these columns have carefully considered proportions. The top of the palace also has original deep eaves, which even cover the roof, so that the appearance of the building remains completely square. Representative works include Palazzo Lucera in Florence.
Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov, Russian chemist, philosopher, poet, and founder of Russian natural science. His contributions to the natural sciences ranged widely, involving chemistry, astronomy, physics, geology, etc. He was the first to record the condensation of mercury. On May 26, 1761, he was the first to discover the existence of an atmosphere on Venus while observing the transit of Venus. Lomonosov also made considerable contributions to the dynamic theory of heat and the atomic-molecular theory of material structure. He is also an outstanding humanities scholar and has conducted research in history, linguistics, and philosophy. He is also known as the father of modern Russian language. The Russian poet Pushkin once compared him to "Russia's first university" and said, "He is a historian, rhetorician, mechanic, chemist, mineralogist, artist and poet. He has personally experienced everything. experienced and studied in depth”.
John von Neumann, an American Jewish mathematician born in Hungary, is an important founder of modern electronic computers and game theory. He is an important figure in functional analysis, ergodic theory, geometry, topology and He has made significant contributions to many mathematical fields such as numerical analysis, as well as to computer science, quantum mechanics and economics. Von Neumann had a photographic memory. Hermann Gudstine wrote: "One of his outstanding abilities was his absolutely accurate recall. As far as I know, von Neumann was able to read a passage just once and then recite it verbatim. Even after many years he could do it fluently. He could also translate the original language into English without any loss of speed. Once I wanted to test his ability and asked him how he started A Tale of Two Cities. , he immediately recited the first chapter and didn't stop until I asked him to stop ten minutes later." Once von Neumann, Enrico Fermi and Richard Feynman were all discussing and calculating together in Taylor's office. question. Every few minutes they paused the discussion and began a round of calculations. Fermi used a slide rule, Feynman used a hand-cranked computer, and von Neumann did all his calculations in his head. Von Neumann was able to obtain similar calculation results to the other two in almost the same amount of time.