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Originally Posted by sn0wball
Under GURPS rules, being the best mathematician in the world doesnīt equal the highest IQ, but perhaps some kind of Talent.
Thus I propose Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, being acknowledged as an universal genius.
Still, with Fast-Talk, Survival and Animal Handling being based on IQ, too, itīs hard to tell.
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Also, the trouble with using Renaissance polymaths as exemplars is that it was a whole lot easier to be on the forefront of a dozen disciplines in the 16th and 17th centuries, because the frontiers of science were a lot closer. A modern Liebniz wouldn't be a leading expert in all the disciplines the original was, simply because every one of those disciplines is many orders of magnitude wider and deeper than they were in his day.