Genius Genes: How Asperger Talents Changed the WorldArguing that highly creative people are largely ?born and not made, ? the authors of Genius Genes: How Asperger Talents Changed the World present case studies of the lives of 21 famous individuals, tying their personalities, talents and lifestyles to the major characteristics of Asperger Syndrome. Subjects range from the well-known to some more obscure, including political/military figures (Thomas Jefferson, Thomas ?Stonewall? Jackson, Bernard Law Montgomery and Charles de Gaulle), mathematicians (Archimedes, Charles Babbage, Paul Erd?s, Norbert Wiener, David Hilbert, and Kurt G?del), scientists (Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Henry Cavendish and Gregor Mendel), writers (Gerard Manley Hopkins and H. G. Wells), plus maverick aviator Charles Lindbergh, psychologist John Broadus Watson and sexologist Alfred C. Kinsey. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Archimedes | 23 |
Isaac Newton | 29 |
Henry Cavendish | 51 |
Thomas Jefferson | 59 |
Charles Babbage | 69 |
Charles Darwin | 81 |
Gregor Johann Mendel | 91 |
Albert Einstein | 199 |
Bernard Law Montgomery | 211 |
Charles de Gaulle | 221 |
Alfred C Kinsey | 235 |
Norbert Wiener | 247 |
Charles A Lindbergh | 255 |
Kurt Gödel | 265 |
Paul Erdös | 277 |
Common terms and phrases
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