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polymath

[pol-ee-math] / ˈpɒl iˌmæθ /






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Goldsmith's history of combining concepts from disparate scientific fields was recognized in 2022 with a Polymath award from Schmidt Futures.

From Science Daily • May 30, 2024

Moira: Fraudulent Theater Polymath should be the name of a band, or maybe a restaurant.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 24, 2023

Over the years, this distinguished scholar has concentrated on the social history of knowledge, most recently in 2020’s “The Polymath: A Cultural History From Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2023

Polymath Douglas Hofstadter coined the heartbreaking phrase “soular coronas” to describe our memories of those eclipsed by death.

From Scientific American • Nov. 5, 2020

Polymath and future Nobel laureate Herbert Simon, and computer scientist Allen Newell, favoured the name “complex information processing”.

From Nature • Oct. 1, 2019




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