Some Famous Child Prodigies
I was inspired to create this thread when I stumbled upon an old Russian description of ILIs, which frequently referred to them as "child prodigies." Now, obviously, not all child prodigies are ILIs, nor are all ILIs child prodigies, but regardless, I have become interested in the types of some famous people who were child prodigies. So, go ahead and try to determine the type of each.
Norbert Wiener, mathematician
http://www.at-mix.de/images/glossar/wiener-norbert.jpg
Terrence Tao, mathematician
http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_m...jpreviewth.jpg
Blaise Pascal, mathematician
http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biog...tos/pascal.jpg
Brian Greene, theoretical physicist, mental calculator
http://www.nndb.com/people/282/000044150/greene.jpg
John von Neumann, mathematician (among other things)
http://digilander.libero.it/ourexam/...VonNeumann.jpg
Daniel Tammet, mental calculator, linguistic savant
http://payanddisplay.org/newwebsite/...Pitimer001.jpg
H.P. Lovecraft, writer
http://alangullette.com/lit/hpl/hpl2.jpg
Pablo Picasso, visual artist
http://www.e-fineart.com/biography/picasso_photo.JPG
Jeremy Bentham, philosopher, social reformer
http://www.consequentialist.com/jeremy-bentham.jpg
John Stuart Mill, philosopher, social reformer
http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=62220&rendTypeId=4
Bobby Fischer, grandmaster, chess prodigy
http://www.born-today.com/Today/pix/fischer_bobby.jpg
Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician
http://web.bilkent.edu.tr/Online/www...Gifs/gauss.gif
Ruth Lawrence, mathematician
http://www.ma.huji.ac.il/~ruthel/ruthel%5B1%5D.gif
William James Sidis, polymath, mathematician, scholar
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Sidis_1914.jpg
Paul Erdos, mathematician
http://amphetamines.com/paul-erdos.jpg
Note: Unfortunately, I did not get around to musical prodigies, as there are far to many for me to list.