Re: IQ and Genius

From: David McFadzean (david@kumo.com)
Date: Mon Nov 30 1998 - 12:49:11 MST


At 02:04 AM 11/30/98 -0500, John Clark wrote:

>So what did this prodigious intellect accomplish in his 46 years? Not
>much, if he's remembered at all it's for writing the definitive book on
>streetcar transfers, perhaps the most boring tome on the planet.

"And he wrote books -- some under his own name, others under pseudonyms.
In 1925 he published a remarkable book on cosmology in which he predicted
black holes --14 years before Chandrasekhar did."

<http://www.uh.edu/admin/engines/epi969.htm>

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