A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a quadrilateral equation, two axioms, and a limerick. That's raw intelligence for you.

Jonathan Stroud
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A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a quadrilateral equation, two axioms, and a limerick. That's raw intelligence for you. Alexei Tikhonov had an IQ of 170 which is considered to be genius level.

He was also one of the Soviet Union’s top mathematicians. He was known for creating the first ever algorithm for solving cubic equations.

Source: Ptolemys Gate

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