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Re:Freedom of Information Release on Nikola Tesla (2011) by bthornbury on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @04:08PM (#15544821)
IQ is an irrelevant metric. Look at his achievements pragmatically.

In terms of understanding of electric phenomena, its difficult to point at another with a similar level of understanding (or at least productive understanding).

With that in mind, it would seem he's quite a bit "smarter" than even very intelligent people, with the same life long pursuit.

Re:Freedom of Information Release on Nikola Tesla (2011) by mhh__ on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @07:11PM (#15546005)
> In terms of understanding of electric phenomena, its difficult to point at another with a similar level of understanding (or at least productive understanding).

Maxwell? Faraday? Heaviside? etc. Or are we explicitly talking circuits?

Re:Freedom of Information Release on Nikola Tesla (2011) by killjoywashere on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @05:25PM (#15545377)
its difficult to point at another contemporary with a similar level of understanding