Saul Aaron Kripke: Invited to apply for a teaching post at Harvard while still in high school:

A rabbi Myer Kripke's son, Saul Aaron Kripke was born in New York and grew up in

Omaha in 1940. Saul Kripke is the oldest of 3 children born to family.his two sisters, Madeline and Netta. By all accounts he was a true prodigy. In the grade 4

he discovered something.that is algebra.The end of grammar school he had

mastered geometry and calculus and taken up philosophy. While still

a teenager(17) he wrote a series of papers that eventually transformed the study

of modal logic and it was published when he was 18. One of them earned a letter from the math department at Harvard,

which hoped he would apply for a job until he wrote back and declined,

explaining, My mother said that I should finish high school and

go to college first. After finishing high school, the college

he eventually choose was Harvard. Kripke was awarded the Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy in 2001., philosophy’s equivalent of the Nobel.

Nowadays, he is thought to be the world’s greatest living philosopher.