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The term ‘genius’ can encompass a number of things. For every person who has their own personal triangle, there is a comedian who made a national catchphrase out of “And away we go.” We throw around the word ‘genius’ for everything from inventing the light bulb, an IQ over 200, to even the subtle complexities [...]
Posted by Jim Ciscell on Sunday, December 30, 2012 at 12:01 am
Filed under People · Tagged Albert Einstein, Blaise Pascal, chess, child geniuses, children, Elise Tan Roberts, Genius, Gregory Smith, Heidi Hankins, Judit Polgar, Kim Ung-Yong, mathematician, MENSA, mozart, Ted Kaczynski, terrence tao, Unabomber, william james sidis, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
To dwindle this list down to ten wasn’t easy, especially when child prodigies don’t appear often, and all deserve due credit. Prodigies possess highly advanced skills that appear early in life, talents that most people, after an entire lifetime of effort, rarely obtain. Of the top ten most interesting prodigies that make our list, each [...]
Posted by Natalie Jaro on Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 12:01 am
Filed under History, People · Tagged Blaise Pascal, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Carl Gauss, Child Prodigies, Jean Champollion, Jean Francois Champollion, John (Janos) von Neumann, Juan Eduardo Cirlot, Kim Ung-Yong, Maria Agnesi, Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Natalie Jaro, Pablo Picasso, Paul Erd, Paul Erdos, Saul Aaron Kripke, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart