Grigori Perelman

To conclude with these top 10 smartest people 2017, let’s talk about Grigori Perelman. Perelman is a highly respected mathematician, born in the Soviet Union in 1966 and considered today the most intelligent man on the face of the Earth. His incredibly high IQ is of 238 points! And in particular, his great contribution to the world has been to prove Thurston’s Geometrization Conjecture; so that it was possible to solve the famous Poincaré Conjecture, which was proposed in 1904 and considered one of the most important mathematical hypotheses and difficult to prove.