polymath
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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
For example, Peter Burke’s “The Polymath: A Cultural History From Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag” catalogues men and women who have contributed significant advances to more than one field of knowledge.
From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2020
Polymath and future Nobel laureate Herbert Simon, and computer scientist Allen Newell, favoured the name “complex information processing”.
From Nature • Oct. 1, 2019
The most famous case is, of course, the Polymath Project, in which Tim Gowers and his readers solved an old mathematical problem in the long comment section of his blog post.
From Scientific American • Jul. 10, 2012
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