Revealing the little-known story about the world's greatest geniuses

Famous prodigies and geniuses always have an interesting anecdotes about their childhood.

1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Mozart played the piano since he was 3 years old.

Mozart is the great Austrian music genius. He played the piano since he was 3 years old. 5 years old, he composed the first piece of music. Mozart and his sister Maria Anna - also a musical prodigy, performed a concert tour of the royal palaces and concerts around Europe. From Bavaria to Paris, the audience was surprised by the natural talent of a genius boy who could play blindfold or duet with one hand.

Mozart died at the age of 35 when he left more than 600 classics. He became one of the world's most famous musical geniuses of all time.

2. Enrico Fermi

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Enrico Fermi is a mathematical and physical genius.

Enrico Fermi is a mathematical and physical genius. At 10 years old, he spent most of his time studying geometry and electric motors. In 1915, his brother died suddenly. 13-year-old Enrico Fermi repressed the sadness by burying himself in books on trigonometry, physics and theoretical mechanics. His radioactive work won the Nobel Prize in physics to help usher in the new nuclear era of mankind.

3. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz knows how to read when he is walking.

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was born in Mexico in 1651, she read when she was a toddler and could read all the books in her grandfather's library. Although social prejudice did not allow women to attend formal education, she began writing poetry at the age of 8 and taught herself Latin.

After that, she continued to study Greek and Aztec language herself. At the age of 17, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz took part in an intensive examination of philosophy, mathematics and history led by 40 university professors. Her deep understanding has made leading experts in the fields feel respectful.

4. Pablo Picasso

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In his artistic career, Pablo Picasso has left over 22,000 works for life.

His natural painting talent was revealed quite early. His mother once recalled that the first requirement when Picassso knew he wanted to have a pencil. 9 years old, he painted the first oil painting. At the age of 14, he started joining the famous Barcelona art school. At the age of 15, the painting ' The First Communion' made a big buzz in the art world at the time. In his artistic career, Pablo Picasso has left over 22,000 works for life.

5. Blaise Pascal

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At 19, Pascal designed and built the first mechanical computer in human history.

Born in 1623 in France, Blaise Pascal was educated by his father, fostering a gift of natural talent at home. When Pascal was young, he was passionate about geometry, but because he was too weak, his father hid his books and everything related to mathematics. Pascal had to learn to build his own geometry. He drew pictures and named them himself. At the age of 16, Pascal published a mathematical work: On the conformation of the conic section, in which he proved a famous theorem (later named him) and called the theorem of miraculous hexagon. At 19, he designed and built the first mechanical computer in human history.

6. Clara Schumann

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Clara Schumann completely mastered the art of piano playing when she was 7 years old.

German musician Clara Schumann did not speak until 4 years old, but when she was 7 years old, she completely mastered the art of piano playing. In 1831, Schumann began his first tour and received many compliments from great music geniuses such as Chopin and Liszt as well as music lovers at that time. At the time of her death in 1896, Schumann spent six decades as a professional musician and played over 1300 concerts large and small.

7. Jean-Francois Champollion

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Rosetta stone.

The secrets of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs can never be revealed without the contributions of language prodigy Jean-Francois Champollion. Born in France in 1790, he has shown his natural talent in language from a very young age and started in Latin, Greek, Arabic, Jewish, Syriac and Sanskrit. Champollion presented his first academic paper at the age of 16, and by the age of 19, he taught history at a school in Grenoble. In the early 1820s, he turned his attention to deciphering the mysteries of Rosetta Stone. He quickly became the first to realize that the symbols of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs had images and letters - a breakthrough that proved to be the key to deciphering the language.

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