The term genius refers to someone with extraordinary intellectual or creative power. Psychologists in the early 1900s were the first to measure and define genius in terms of a person's intelligence quotient (IQ).* The first genius IQ score was around 140. That's about one in every 250 people. However, this number is pretty much insignificant when you compare it with a standardized measurement of people that go above 200. In particular, mathematical genius Terence Tao scored a 760 (short of 800) on the mathematical portion of the SAT when he was 8 years old. Notably, he has contributed to fields such as dispersive partial differential equations, harmonic analysis, analytic number theory, and arithmetic combinatorics.

This brings me up to the question of the day: do you believe being a genius is genetical, or is it the way a person is raised and their subsequent learning experience? Do you believe genius is determined by education, or is it a set limit the moment a person is born and determined by a genetical factor?