This brings to mind the childhood of John Stuart Mill:<p>- Learned Greek starting age three.<p>- Was studying Plato at age six.<p>- Studied Latin starting at age eight.<p>And more: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#Biography" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#Biography</a><p>I guess it helps that he had Jeremy Bentham hanging around his house from an early age.
This really reminded me of the first part Flowers for Algernon. The main character undergoes a treatment which improves is intelligence and the story is narrated via a series of diary entries which become successively more fluent and sophisticated.
Incredible. Knowing about Abelian groups at age 7. Being able to graph <i>y = x^3 — 2x^2 + x</i> in one minute.
I am interested in his new book, "Six Math Essentials", but I doubt it will be on my very low level of math understanding..
My brain initially parsed the title as an obituary title and I was really sad for a moment.
Humbling.
Interesting it's hosted on gwern...