It could be that way... I doubt it though. I don't believe anyone is that innately talented. Try picking up a few musical instruments that you don't know how to play. Genius is learned, not inborn. You need to be lucky enough to win a certain IQ and have all your fingers and toes, but after that it's perspiration.
Find me a child prodigy genius who didn't come from a well to-do family who paid for tons of tutoring. Find me one from a slum. (hint: you probably won't find one)
> Without a degree, he left college and continued to pursue independent research in mathematics. At this point in his life, he lived in extreme poverty and was often on the brink of starvation.
>Born at Erode, Madras Presidency (now Tamil Nadu) in a Tamil Brahmin family of Thenkalai Iyengar sect[2][3][4] Ramanujan's introduction to formal mathematics began at age 10.
"Brahmin" are the elite hindu upper class.
I would credit you with contradicting me but you haven't.
However, that's a pretty interesting link. Thanks for sharing.
>> was an Indian mathematician and autodidact who, with almost no formal training in pure mathematics, made extraordinary contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions. Living in India with no access to the larger mathematical community, which was centred in Europe at the time, Ramanujan developed his own mathematical research in isolation. As a result, he sometimes rediscovered known theorems in addition to producing new work. Ramanujan was said to be a natural genius by the English mathematician G. H. Hardy, in the same league as mathematicians such as Euler and Gauss.[1] He died at the age of 32.
-- no formal training
-- developed his own mathematical research in isolation.
We're talking talent here, upper class or no. Talent is talent ,even when it is not discovered. In this case ,it was
Find me a child prodigy genius who didn't come from a well to-do family who paid for tons of tutoring. Find me one from a slum. (hint: you probably won't find one)