Child Prodigy: Difference between revisions

See also [[Brainy Baby]] which is even younger counterpart.

 

 

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** It's revealed in the [[Comic Book Adaptation|supplementary manga]] of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' that the math used in earth and Mid-Childa are very similar, and using advanced magic requires a firm grasp of mathematical formulas. Needless to say, Nanoha and Fate are math geniuses who always ace the subject in school, much to the chagrin of the competitive [[Those Two Guys|Alisa]], and Fate even helps Nanoha's older sister Miyuki with her school work.

* Ai Haibara from ''[[Detective Conan (Manga)|Detective Conan]]'' is implied to have been one: if she has a PhD and already led [[The Syndicate]]'s lab before the age of 18, she must be one in her preteen years.

** The titular character ''seems'' like a [[Child Prodigy]] to those who don't know his true identity. He's actually [[Older Than They Look|Older Than He Looks]] due to an [[Fountain of Youth|'un-aging' pill]], but even so he is a [[Teen Genius]]. And according to the OVA's, Shinichi/Conan ''was'' a [[Child Prodigy]] when he truly was a child.

* Sou Touma from [[QED]], likewise, is MIT-graduated before high school age; he is now in a [[High School]] for the needed socialization to prevent [[Intelligence Equals Isolation]].

** Justified in that she is a [[Child Prodigy]] out of necessity rather than genetics as being the [[Fallen Princess]] and only hope of a dying clan and being charged with such clan's future, ''besides'' probably dealing with assassination attempts that Ling says are common for people in such position, makes you mature fast.

** A straight and much more obvious example from the same series: the Elric brothers. They tried to raise their mother from the dead when they were 11 and 10, and had learned alchemy by themselves when much younger. Winry probably also counts - c'mon, were you able to make mechanic limbs when you were eleven?

**** The FMA manga clarifies that automail "mechanics" are actually closer to surgeons then the people fixing your car. So a more real-world applicable question would be "Were you successfully performing surgery on amputees when you were 11?"

* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh]]!'': Seto Kaiba is not only a [[Teen Genius]], but he beat Gozaburo in a chess match in order to get him and Mokuba adopted. When he was TEN. THAT takes SKILLZ!

** In the show's present and the R. Tam Sessions, she's a [[Teen Genius]]. She was definitely a [[Child Prodigy]] when she was younger, but the only time this shows up ''on-screen'' is the flashback at the beginning of "Safe".

* Micah Sanders from ''[[Heroes (TV)|Heroes]]'' shows incredible political prowess and was able to {{spoiler|lead the resistance against a [[Government Conspiracy]]}} at the age of eleven.

* [[Goodness Gracious Me]] has an [[Crowning Moment of Funny|utterly hilarious take]] on a child prodigy [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cpp71tpehg in this video].

* Major Nelson had to babysit a kid with a 153 IQ once on ''[[I Dreamof Jeannie]]''.

* Kim Ung-Yong of South Korea was reported with an IQ of 210 in the mid-1960s. He was a guest student in physics at Hangyang University at three (both his parents were professors there) and appeared on Japan's "World Surprise Show" at four composing poetry, speaking four languages and solving integral calculus problems. NASA paid for him to attend Colorado State University and then hired him at age 11. He worked there until he was about 17, later saying it was monumentally boring and he missed his mother. He went home and changed fields entirely. Today he is a professor of civil engineering at a college near his home town.

* Even more of a child prodigy is Srinivasa Ramanujan. He made theorems at age 12 that you could get a [[PHD]] for proving today. He was an unparalleled mathematical genius.

* Seiyuu [[Hiroko Kasahara]] debuted in a lead role when she was 12 years old.

** Same goes to [[Yoko Honna]], who was around 10 when she started her career.

* A few [[Chess (Tabletop Game)|Chess]] grandmasters, specially world champions. Small example: Jose Raul Capablanca learned to play chess at the age of 4 and had beaten the Cuban national champion by the age of 12!

* Sho Yano, who started university by age 9 and is in medical school and studying for a PhD on the side by age 12.

* [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]]. If not the outright [[Trope Codifier]], he's certainly the most famous example. He started playing piano at age 3, was composing by age 5, and wrote his first symphony at age 8.

* French pianist and composer Camille Saint-Saens gave his first public piano recital at age 11. For an encore, he went back on stage and asked the audience to name any of the 35 sonatas for piano by Beethoven, which he would then play from memory.

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