Originally Posted by 22B
Originally Posted by Wilson Bio
... I learned the basic principle of calculus from Mathematics and Imagination by Kasner and Newman, and went of to work through a calculus text, until I got stuck in a chapter on involutes and evolutes. ..

What are "involutes and evolutes"?

A potential list of "famous accelerants" is here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_child_prodigies

There is a wikipedia article on "involute" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Involute (which also defines "evolute").

Googling "gifted accelerants" shows that my use of the term "accelerant" is not unique smile.