Are you feeling smart today? On top of your game, are you? Well, meet UCLA's 31-year-old mathematics professor who happens to have made some significant discoveries pertaining to a 2,300 year old math problem, among other things. He seems like a nice-enough guy, he just happened to be working through high school problem sets when most of us were struggling with the nuances of the "plus" sign. Stupendous brainpower apparently runs in the family. One of his brothers is mildly autistic and can play any piece of music on the piano after hearing it once. And pity the poor youngest brother, who had to beg his parents to recognize that he was not like his brother. No, that poor wretch only has degrees in economics, math and computer science and holds down a job as a computer programmer.
Want to know how you know you are a prodigy? Solve these problems. Without paper. At eight years old.
Can you even solve them now? [Yes, Andy, I'm sure you can, but you always did have a little Rainman in you when it came to math.]
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