A Mozart with numbers. (End Note).(Carl Friedrich)(Brief Article)

From: Strategic Finance | Date: May 1, 2003 | Copyright information

It's encouraging when the occasional genius shows up in our midst, but not nearly as fascinating as the child prodigy. A prodigy is much more of a mystery and a surprise.

Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) early on displayed an innate facility with numbers that resembled his contemporary Mozart's ability with musical tones. The son of uneducated parents, the boy taught himself to read and count by the age of three. One of the early legends about his genius had its source in a classroom assignment given him at St. Catherine's Elementary School. Gauss was 10 years old at the ...

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