George Green, who discovered Greens Theorem, was such a bumpkin. His father was a miller in the unfashionable countryside, and he had a modest education. A mys

George Green, who discovered Greens Theorem, was such a bumpkin. His father was a miller in the unfashionable countryside, and he had a modest education. A mystery of math history is how such a bumpkin was so poorly versed in advanced mathematics (inaccessible to someone far from a university, where such knowledge was confined at that time), discovered such remarkable mathematics that the average engineering undergrad knows his name. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Green_(mathematician) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Green_(mathematician) Frankly history is replete with bumpkins making extraordinary discoveries. Being a bumpkin is associated with ignorance, not stupidity. Intelligence is pretty uniformly distributed, even among the black, short, fat, and bumpkins.