Tfw wasn't born a child prodigy

>tfw autistic
someone else?

Einstein mastered calculus at 15, that is pretty good.

anyone who was a great personality only got that on the side of pursuing some real goal. you're flawed from the start since you just want fame and you don't actually want to know anything

Most child prodigies don't become famous scientists or mathematicians later in life. We're not that good at predicting success, the children who show the most promise usually just end up as normal people (or maladjusted autists).

Former child prodigy, started college for biochem at 12 but washed out about halfway through. I am 27 and I am currently experiencing what feels like dementia. I forget where I am or what I am doing and even that I forgot in the first place. I am ready for death.

Calculus is only seen as difficult because we are taught it later down the road, if it were taught earlier it wouldn't be seen as particularly more difficult than other math.

But it's taught later specifically because it builds on things you need to learn first earlier. Like you couldn't teach a kid calculus first and algebra second, right?

I think it could be taught in steps, so when introducing graphs there could be some Riemann sums, some simple derivatives when talking about the slope and stuff like that. I have no idea what user meant by Einstein mastering Calculus, I don't think it's that difficult unless we're talking about rigoristic calc.

If you want to become famous there are probably a lot easier ways than proving Riemann's.

desu, "child prodigies" who only skipped years dont feel like real prodigies, it is more the result of a perceptive teacher or parent who realizes how little difference in difficulty there is in primary education.
Every slightly smarter child could skip years, because the difference in difficulty in the first years of education is so insignificant, but this difference will get bigger and bigger as you get older. So it is a clever move to let your child skip classes early on in life, but it does not really indicate whether the child is talented or not, because he doesnt do anything that other children will also eventually have done.
I'm much more impressed by children who win olympiads or who do original research at a young age and I think this is a much better predictor of success.