In Memory of Bobby Fischer

Edward Rothstein on mathematics, music, and chess (New York Times, Jan. 19, 2008):

"There may be only three human activities in which miraculous accomplishment is possible before adulthood: mathematics, music and chess."

George Steiner on music, mathematics, and chess (New Yorker, Sept. 7, 1968):

"There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats before the age of puberty.  They are music, mathematics, and chess."

This is from Steiner's "A Death of Kings," reprinted in George Steiner: A Reader, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 171-178:

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