Patent Office Clerk A. EinsteinFormulated Theory of Relativity. |
English Youth John Stuart MillWas able to read Greek and Latin at age 3. |
Madras Clerk Srinivasa RamanujanAfter failing his school examinations, Ramanujan obtained a position as a clerk in the city of Madras. Before his death at age 32, made fundamental advances in mathematics including Riemann series, the elliptic integrals, hypergeometric series and functional equations of the zeta function. |
Judean Carpenter Jesus of NazarethTold young women he was God and they believed him. |
Programmed by Eve Astrid Andersson and Philip Greenspun back in the mid-1990s. If you're a nerd, you might find the source code useful.
Original Inspiration: How to Make Yourself Miserable, by
Dan Greenburg