A child '''prodigy''' is someone who at an early age masters one or more [[skills]] at an adult level. One heuristic for classifying prodigies is: a prodigy is a child, typically younger than 15 years old, who is [[performing]] at the level of a highly trained adult in a very demanding field of endeavor. The [[Creativity|giftedness]] of child prodigies is determined by the [[degree]] of their talent [[relative]] to their ages. Examples of particularly extreme child prodigies would include [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart] in [[music]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polg%C3%A1r Judit Polgár] in chess, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss Carl Friedrich Gauss] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann John von Neumann] in [[mathematics]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso Pablo Picasso] in art, and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Kripke Saul Kripke] in [[philosophy]]. There is [[controversy]] as to at what age and [[standard]] to use in the definition of a prodigy. | A child '''prodigy''' is someone who at an early age masters one or more [[skills]] at an adult level. One heuristic for classifying prodigies is: a prodigy is a child, typically younger than 15 years old, who is [[performing]] at the level of a highly trained adult in a very demanding field of endeavor. The [[Creativity|giftedness]] of child prodigies is determined by the [[degree]] of their talent [[relative]] to their ages. Examples of particularly extreme child prodigies would include [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart] in [[music]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polg%C3%A1r Judit Polgár] in chess, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss Carl Friedrich Gauss] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann John von Neumann] in [[mathematics]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso Pablo Picasso] in art, and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Kripke Saul Kripke] in [[philosophy]]. There is [[controversy]] as to at what age and [[standard]] to use in the definition of a prodigy. |