When, at age six, Theodore von Kármán was able to multiply six-digit numbers in his head, his father—a famous teacher and educational reformer in Hungary—became alarmed that his child would become “some kind of a freak,” and forbade him to think about mathematics anymore, ordering him to read history, poetry, and geography instead. Luckily for …
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