At an age when most kids are still figuring out which shoe goes on which foot, child prodigies are out there rewriting history and solving problems the rest of us didn’t know existed. From composing symphonies at six to debating astrophysics in their teens, these pint-sized geniuses make us question what exactly we were doing with our free time as kids. Hint: it wasn’t discovering new mathematical principles.

 

16 Of The Smartest Children In History