Twenty-one extraordinary minds across mathematics, physics, music, and computing—each with a specific turning point that transformed curiosity into genius.
Patterns across all twenty-one: women barred from education who contributed anyway, prodigies who burned bright, outsiders who rebuilt entire fields from first principles.
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Click any card to explore the documented turning points—the specific books, encounters, and obsessions that made genius possible.