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mashton
I have a question that perhaps one of you history buffs can help me with.
I basically have a vague memory of something that I need reminding the details of. Ok, so I remember hearing a story about some boy savant type (who was also a emperor/prince etc) somewhere in the east... someplace like India or China many hundreds of years ago. It was a place which did not have knowledge of a modern mathematical system. But some vistor from another country gifted him a mathematics book. And a short time later, not only had this boy developed a full understanding of the modern mathematics of the era but also come up with a whole bunch of innovations.
That is all I remember, and it maybe nonsense. But if anyone knows of a vaguely similar story in history, link me.
Thanks.