A Chinese genius flexed his mathematical prowess by solving a problem that flummoxed a team of mathematicians with Ph.D.s for four months in a single night. Wei Dongyi, a 30-year-old assistant ...

Jordan Ellenberg recently wrote an essay in the Wall Street Journal titled “The Wrong Way to Treat Child Geniuses.” He recounts his childhood as a “genius” and part of the group identified by the ...

Blaise Pascal independently rediscovered classical geometry at the age of 12 despite a ban on formal maths studies. His early ...