Interesting story about the memory of geniuses

Why can some people make a square root of a 10-digit number in a few seconds but have no inventions and are forgotten by history, while others who are famous for their ideals are kept as those genius?

Interesting stories about memory

History has recorded many people with special memories. The first case was noted that in 1664 in Italy, explorer Baltaza met boy Matheus le Cok , although he was only 8 years old, could not read or write but he could mentally correct the numbers 5 - 6 digits and declare the square root and the third.

The boy told him that he learned how to do mental arithmetic while playing with beads.

In the 1970s, a Russian named Evgeny Ivanikhin was paralyzed in a stroller for only 3 seconds to read and remember a page.

In the 1980s, both the Soviet Union knew Solomon Shereshevsky because he could easily remember a sequence of 70 digits and read it back and forth exactly.

These people, in addition to that special memory, have left no imprint in science, art . and forgotten. Researchers believe that the memory of geniuses works according to a different, selective principle.

Geniuses are able to remember unconsciously . Information is unconsciously recorded in the brain. When it comes to work that needs that information, they automatically wake up, reminding the owner.

This information is often related to their work. While information about chores in life is often forgotten.

Clown King Chalie Chaplin just needs to look through the dressing room, messing with hundreds of props, noticing three things immediately: the pipe cap, the tailcoat and the walking stick. He only remembered them when preparing the role and he knew immediately where to find them.

The French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) and Alexander the Great (356 - 323 BC) of Macedonia could remember the names of all his soldiers - about 30 thousand people.

Emperor Napoleon can remember the names of 30,000 soldiers (Photo: bilkent.edu)

Greek philosopher Socrates (470 - 399 million BC) remembered the whole face of 20,000 people of Athens.

The two great composers WA Mozart (1756 - 1791) and Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975) could listen once and play the music again.

The great Russian chess champion Aleksandr Alekhin (1892 - 1946) played at the same time with 40 people without looking at the chess tables.

In contrast, the founder of the automation industry Norbert Viner (1894 - 1964), the first day when he moved to a new home, he went home to the old house and met his daughter there and was taken to a new home. . It turned out that the mother knew her husband would forget to send her daughter to wait for her father at the old house.

Chalie Chaplin, a clown, although he remembers his instruments well, doesn't remember the name of the secretary who worked with him for 7 years.

Picasso's logo often marks important events with something, such as a broken cup, handkerchief, a broken comb . Only when he holds the object in his hand does he remember the events related to this item.