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    A polymath or polyhistor is an individual whose knowledge spans many different subjects, known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific...
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  • Look up polymath or polymathic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A polymath is a person (also known as Renaissance Person), whose expertise spans a...
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    The Polymath: Unlocking the Power of Human Versatility is a non-fiction book by British author Waqas Ahmed, first published in 2018. It argues that specialisation...
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    40°09′32″N 79°24′58″W / 40.158775°N 79.415990°W / 40.158775; -79.415990 Polymath Park is a 130-acre (0.53 km2) resort near Acme in Westmoreland County,...
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  • The Polymath Project is a collaboration among mathematicians to solve important and difficult mathematical problems by coordinating many mathematicians...
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  • Polymath is a science fiction novel by John Brunner, first published in 1974 by DAW Books, an expansion of Castaways' World (Ace 1963). A spacecraft filled...
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    Francis Williams (c. 1690 – c. 1770) was a Jamaican polymath, scholar, astronomer and poet who was one of the most notable free black people in Jamaica...
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  • Howard Marsh KCVO CB CMG (18 November 1872 – 13 January 1953) was a British polymath, translator, arts patron and civil servant. He was the sponsor of the Georgian...
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  • philanthropy) and manthanein, math- (μανθάνειν, μαθ-; "to learn", as in polymath). Philomathy is similar to, but distinguished from, philosophy in that...
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    Pete Moore is a British science writer, author, speaker and facilitator. His work aims to convey scientific concepts in layman's terms to enable public...
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  • of all trades that is highly skilled in many disciplines is known as a polymath. In 1612, the phrase appeared in the book "Essays and Characters of a Prison"...
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  • can also be used to refer to people characterised by genius, and/or to polymaths who excel across many subjects. There is no scientifically precise definition...
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    of B. R. Ambedkar (14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956) who was an Indian polymath and the chairman of the Constituent Drafting Committee. The patriarch Ambedkar...
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    Hermann Conring (9 November 1606 – 12 December 1681) was a German intellectual. He made significant contributions to the study of medicine, politics and...
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    18 August 1994) was an Israeli Orthodox Jewish public intellectual and polymath. He was a professor of biochemistry, organic chemistry, and neurophysiology...
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    Heinrich Schulze (12 May 1687 – 10 October 1744) was a German professor and polymath. Schulze studied medicine, chemistry, philosophy and theology and became...
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    (Finnish: [ˈeliɑs ˈlønruːt] ; 9 April 1802 – 19 March 1884) was a Finnish polymath, physician, philosopher, poet, musician, linguist, journalist, philologist...
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    Thomas Young FRS (13 June 1773 – 10 May 1829) was a British polymath who made notable contributions to the fields of vision, light, solid mechanics, energy...
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  • prime, then the sexy prime is part of a prime triplet. In August 2014, the Polymath group, seeking the proof of the twin prime conjecture, showed that if the...
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    Admirable Crichton (19 August 1560 – 3 July 1582), was an alleged Scottish polymath noted for his extraordinary accomplishments in languages, the arts, and...
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    Gozzi, Latin: Nicolai Viti Gozzii; 1549–1610) was a Ragusan statesman, polymath, philosopher, science writer and author of one of the first scientific...
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    French: Jean-Henri Lambert; 26 or 28 August 1728 – 25 September 1777) was a polymath from the Republic of Mulhouse, generally identified as either Swiss or...
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    Frederick William Lanchester (23 October 1868 – 8 March 1946), was an English polymath and engineer who made important contributions to automotive engineering...
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  • practically a continuation: Vol. I, 1756, Vol. II, These works are those of a polymath, covering philology, natural science, theology and other subjects, unsystematically...
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    at the age of 78 in Fez. al-Ghazali (c. 1058 – 1111) was a Sunni Muslim polymath. He was a prominent Sufi, jurisconsult, legal theoretician, mufti, philosopher...
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  • paper was accepted in early May 2013. Terence Tao subsequently proposed a Polymath Project collaborative effort to optimize Zhang's bound. One year after...
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  • Keļallur Nīlakaṇṭha Somayāji (14 June 1444 – 1544), also referred to as Keļallur Comatiri, was a mathematician and astronomer of the Kerala school of astronomy...
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    December 1516), born Johann Heidenberg, was a German Benedictine abbot and a polymath who was active in the German Renaissance as a lexicographer, chronicler...
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  • (Arabic: أبو حنيفة أحمد بن داود الدينوري; died 895) was an Islamic Golden Age polymath: astronomer, agriculturist, botanist, metallurgist, geographer, mathematician...
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    Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 1769 – 6 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy...
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