First ones off the top of my head would be UBIK by Phillip K Dick or either Stranger in a Strange Land or JOB by Heinlein.
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Dornick coming from a primitive culture and going on to be one of the most qualified mathematicians in the galaxy after discovering a sack of textbooks as an adult really outs the writers as people who cannot distinguish calculus from magic.