
Ludo reads Homer in the original Greek at 4 before moving on to Hebrew, Japanese, Old Norse, and Inuit studying advanced mathematical techniques (Fourier analysis and Laplace transformations) and, as the title hints, endlessly watching and analyzing Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece, The Seven Samurai. "Helen DeWitt's extraordinary debut, The Last Samurai, centers on the relationship between Sibylla, a single mother of precocious and rigorous intelligence, and her son, who, owing to his mother's singular attitude to education, develops into a prodigy of learning.

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