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Re:Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children by nibs on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @01:37PM (#12445392)
"Nobody pops out of the womb a math genius"

Two thirds of the world's current math researchers can trace lineage to just 23, 17th century mathematicians.

Source: http://www.nature.com/news/majority-of-mathematicians-hail-f...

Re:Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children by scarmig on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @02:25PM (#12445773)
Really odd misreading. That's a lineage of teacher-pupil relations, not genetic. If anything, it points in the opposite direction of what you're claiming, though in reality it's either just a statement about the clubbiness of mathematics or a statistical likelihood because of how trees work.