List of polymaths

List of polymaths - A to J. Jeremy Bentham, jurist, inventor, philosopher, mathematician, economist, and political commentator William Blake, poet, painter, engraver, visionary mystic Alexander Borodin, composer and chemist Rudjer Boscovich, physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, and poet Sir Richard Francis Burton, explorer, linguist, anthropologist, diplomat and swordsman Sir George Cayley, naturalist, physical scientist, engineer, invento ...

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A genius is a person with distinguished mental prowess. This can manifest either as a foremost intellect, or as an outstanding creative talent. The term also applies to one who is a polymath, or someone skilled in many mental areas. The term specifically applies to mental rather than athletic skills, although it is also colloquially used to denote the possession of a superior talent in any field; e.g., Pelé may be said to have a genius for football or Gandhi for diplomacy. Genius - Etymology. In Ancient Ro ...

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Many dictionaries and dictionaries of word origins list these words as synonyms. Thus, today, regardless of any differentiation they may have had when originally coined, they are often taken to mean the same thing (except when used by specialists). The root terms histor and -math have similar meanings in their etymological antecedents (to learn, learned, knowledge), though with some initial and ancillarily added differing qualities. Innate in historíā (Greek and Latin) is that the learning takes place via ...

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Polymath, Polymath - Etymological differentiation between Polymath and Polyhistor

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It has often been noted that geniuses are accused of a lack of common sense. Stories of a genius in a given field being incapable of grasping so-called "everyday" concepts are abundant. Einstein reportedly sawed the rudder off his sailboat while at sea. One must remember that a genius is often driven to focus intensely on a given subject. Such focus might present itself as being obsessive/compulsive in nature, but it might also simply have been a choice made by the individual. If one is engaged in groundbreaking work in one's field, maintain ...

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In Ancient Rome, the genius was the guiding or "tutelary" spirit of a person or indeed of an entire gens. A related term is genius loci, the spirit of a specific locale. In contrast, the internal driving force within all living things is the animus. A specific spirit , or daemon, may inhabit an image or icon, giving it supernatural powers. A comparable term from Arabic lore is a djinn, often Anglicized as "genie". Note, however, that this te ...

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Geniuses come gifted with phenomenal brilliance, and are often as insensitive to the limitations of mediocrity as they may be very sensitive emotionally themselves, sometimes both. The term prodigy simply denotes the presence of exceptional talent or genius in early childhood. The term prodigy and child prodigy are synonymous, the latter being a pleonasm. Artistic genius may show itself in early childhood (prodigy) or later in life; either way, geniuses eventually differentiate themselves from the rest through great originality. Intel ...

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In the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, a genius is a person in whom intellect predominates over will much more than for the average person. In Schopenhauer's aesthetics, this predominance of intellect over will allows the genius to create artistic or academic works that are objects of pure, disinterested contemplation, the chief criterion of the aesthetic experience for Schopenhauer. Their remoteness from mundane concerns means that Schopenhauer's geniuses often display maladaptive traits in more mundane concerns; in Schopenhauer's words, they fall ...

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List of polymaths - A to D. Mário de Andrade, poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian, critic, and photographer G. E. M. Anscombe, logician, theologian, translator, classical studies George Antheil, composer, pianist, celebrity, inventor, writer, endocrinologist Isaac Asimov, science-fiction author, non-fiction author, biochemist, science essayist, bible scholar Gregory Bateson, anthropologist, social scientist, linguist Alexander Graham Bell, scientist, inv ...

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