第一章 定義天才
E. T. Bell, Men of Mathematics (London: Victor Gollancz, 1937)
Daniel Coyle, The Talent Code (London: Random House, 2009)
H. J. Eysenck, Genius: The Natural History of Creativity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995)
Francis Galton, Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry into Its Laws and Consequences (Amherst: Prometheus, 2006)
M. J. A. Howe, J. W. Davidson, and J. A. Sloboda, ‘Innate Talents: Reality or Myth？’, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21 (1998): 399-442
Penelope Murray (ed.), Genius: The History of an Idea (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989)
Andrew Steptoe, ‘Mozart: Resilience Under Stress’, in Genius and the Mind: Studies of Creativity and Temperament, ed. Andrew Steptoe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998)
第二章 天才家事
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (New York: Harper Collins, 1996)
Victor Goertzel and Mildred Goertzel, Cradles of Eminence (London: Constable, 1962)
R. Ochse, Before the Gates of Excellence: The Determinants of Creative Genius (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990)
第三章 天才教育
Robert Kanigel, The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan (London: Scribners, 1991)
Andrew Robinson, The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris (London: Thames & Hudson, 2002)
Dean Keith Simonton, Genius, Creativity and Leadership: Historiometric Inquiries (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1984)
John Tusa, On Creativity: Interviews Exploring the Process (London: Methuen, 2003)
第四章 智力與創造力
Catharine M. Cox, The Early Mental Traits of Three Hundred Geniuses, vol. 2 of Genetic Studies of Genius, ed. L. M. Terman (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1926)
James R. Flynn, What Is Intelligence？: Beyond the Flynn Effect (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)
David Lubinski and Camilla Persson Benbow, ‘Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth After 35 Years: Uncovering Antecedents for the Development of Math-Science Expertise’, Perspectives on Psychological Science, 1 (2006): 316-45