66.9% of matchups won
921 matchups
Elo 1681
tracked 2025/05/26 → 2026/09/10
mission: Advance mathematics and physics · Mathematics and physics · philosophers
Public sentiment
how often it gets picked, by matchup framing66%
picked as helping wellbeing
818 matchups
74%
picked as hurting wellbeing
103 matchups
On balance people see it as hurting.
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Rating over time
Elo, 7-day average · history as of 2025-08-29Related
Similar people
01
Galileo Galilei
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70.4% wins · Italian polymath (1564–1642)
02
Pythagoras
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57.8% wins · Greek philosopher and mathematician (c. 570 – c. 495 BC)
03
Isaac Newton
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64.8% wins · English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
04
Eratosthenes
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32.6% wins · Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, librarian and...
05
Aristotle
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64.3% wins · 4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
Known for
- Archimedes' principle
- Approximation of pi
- On the sphere and cylinder
- Defensive war machines
- Method of exhaustion
Based on 921 head-to-head matchups from Mic Check's global survey; ratings use Elo (1500 = neutral start). Latest data 2026/09/10. Full rankings ·
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