Mark Ehlert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Kim Patrick Clow wrote in part:
>
>>Interestingly enough I have read that Beethoven could NOT do
>>simple math.  He required the help of others.
>
>Multiplication was his bugaboo.  He was still going over multiplication
>tables while on his deathbed with the help of little Gerhard von Breuning.
>(Perhaps Joyce will correct me if I'm wrong here).

I wonder if Mozarts interest was mathematics in general of if he had a
vorlieben for simply counting, what is a lexical talent, rather independent
from that logic thinking we usually measure IQ with.

Besides it is not too unusual that people who are obsessed with Gilles de
LaTourettes Syndrome loves counting, and are good at it.  Like they often
have a much better than average sence for rythm.

Mats Norrman
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