Where is the genius? How can I find a real and modern genius? When someone become a genius? These are some questions I hear frequently. And I met personally a person considered genius by several university professors. I am talking about one of the present academical genius: my friend Ralph Teixeira, Ph.D. in Mathematics at Harvard in 1998, and today working as a researcher at PUC-RIO and at IMPA, in Brazil. But what qualifies him as a "genius" for me? His distinctive results achieved. Three times in the International Mathematical Olympiad he almost won a bronze medalm with 48.56% in 1985 and award two gold medals in 1986 and 1987, the last perfect and ranked 1st (see IMO link). But I he started as a baby when he learned by himself to read and write, as told by his mother. Then he was always in the forefront and progressively become to all class a long way off.
To be a brilliant mind someone can start early or... late?! Einstein is one of the best known genius ever. His history is quite different from the one I just presented. He was a normal. He was not a bad student, but with good to very good school marks (see Lectures in Physics). His geniality grew up after a lot of study. The case is the same I mentioned before, but in this case, later.
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