5 most intelligent geniuses in human history

(Baonghean.vn) - There are 5 child prodigies in the world that are recognized by humanity as the most intelligent in human history. They are Mozart, Hamilton, Picasso, James Sidis and Shakuntala Devi.

1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Composer from the age of 6

Mozart - musical genius. Photo: Internet.

Mozart is an Austrian musical genius. He is considered the most famous musical prodigy of all time and is in the top 5 most intelligent prodigies in the world.

At the age of 3, Mozart was able to play the clavichord (a type of instrument similar to the piano, but smaller in size). By the age of 6, this genius musician had written his first chord. At the age of 8, he composed his first symphony and wrote an opera at the age of 12.

At the age of five, Mozart became the youngest person to perform at the piano at the University of Salzburg (Austria) and a year later performed at the Imperial Palace in the Austrian capital Vienna.

At the age of 14, Mozart was invited to Italy to compose opera there. Mozart died at the age of 35 and left behind more than 600 different works.

2. William Rowan Hamilton - Polyglot at 5

Hamilton - mathematical genius. Photo: Internet.

Hamilton was a famous Irish mathematical prodigy. Born in Dublin, Ireland in 1805, William Rowan Hamilton showed his extraordinary intelligence very early, by the age of 5, he could speak Latin, Greek and Hebrew fluently.

At the age of 13, this prodigy could speak 13 different languages, including Sanskrit, Persian, Italian, Arabic, Syrian, Indian dialects...

Not only was Rowan Hamilton a natural at languages, he also showed his talent for mathematics at a very early age. At the age of 15, Hamilton discovered errors while studying the work of the famous French mathematician Pierre Simon.

Hamilton made many contributions to the development of the theory of dynamics and Quaternions, a method used for three-dimensional space in mathematics. He was the greatest mathematician to be knighted in Ireland in 1835 and died in 1865.

3. Pablo Picasso - The greatest artist of the 20th century

Genius painter Picasso. Photo: Internet.

Born in 1881 in Spain, Pablo Picasso developed his painting skills at a very early age, with the help of his father, who was also a painter, at the age of 15, Picasso presented his oil painting in Barcelona, ​​titled “The First Communion”.

The painting “Science and Humanity” helped Picasso win the Gold Medal in the art painting competition in Malaga (Spain) and helped him appear as an honored guest at the national exhibition of fine arts held in the capital Madrid this year.

Picasso founded the Cubist style of painting in the early 20th century and continues to create masterpieces today. The genius artist died in France in 1973.

4. William James Sidis - The smartest person in world history

Sidis is one of the smartest people in the world. Photo: Internet.

James Sidis was a British mathematical prodigy. At the age of 8, William James Sidis demonstrated his genius in mathematics by developing a new logarithm table based on the number 12 and gave a lecture at Harvard University a year later.

He also holds the world record for the youngest person to attend and graduate from Harvard University when he entered the school at the age of 11 and graduated five years later.

Sidis is considered the most intelligent person to have ever lived, with an estimated IQ between 250-300.

Sidis taught himself to read at the age of five and quickly mastered eight languages, and began writing at the age of seven. In 1925, he published a book on cosmology in which he predicted black holes in the universe. Sidis died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1944.

5. Shakuntala Devi - India's "Mathematical Wizard"

Devi is a math wizard. Photo: Internet.

Shakuntala Devi is an Indian mathematical genius. The daughter of an animal trainer, Shakuntala Devi began her love of numbers through playing cards with her father at the age of 3.

The nicknames “computer woman” and “mathematical wizard” were given to Devi after she demonstrated her mathematical prowess at Mysore and Annamalai universities as a child.

Devi's talent has helped her to be honored many times in the Guinness Book of Records, for example when she was able to mentally calculate the 23rd root of a 201-digit number...

In 2006, Devi published a book titled “The Wonderland of Numbers”, which tells the story of a little girl who shows her love for numbers, which is also the story of her life./.

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