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Some fisherman whose line jerks with his catch, some idle shepherd leaning on his crook, some plowman at his plow, looks up and sees something astonishing ... ("Daedalus and Icarus," Ovid, Metamorphoses, C. Martin, Trans.) After a single hearing, the 14-year-old Mozart transcribed Allegri's Miserere -12 minutes of music for nine voices -from memory. In his seventies, and totally blind, Euler composed and dictated dozens of major works of mathematics. Mozart and Euler are indisputably geniuses of the first magnitude, but not simply because they possessed seemingly magical mental abilities. After all, Luria (1968) documented the case of a Russian journalist who could remember virtually everything (including tables of random numbers seen decades ago) but who never produced work of any consequence. A number of autistic individuals -so-called savants -can perform prodigious feats of calculation, although they never advance mathematics. Geniuses usually have exceptional gifts, but their defining characteristic is that they use these gifts to solve artistic, intellectual, or practical problems in original ways. What is it beyond mere mental ability that leads these individuals to see the

Author

Robert R. McCrae; David M. Greenberg

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781118367391

Subjects

Psychology, Social_sciences