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    A polymath (Greek: πολυμαθής, romanized: polymathēs, lit. 'having learned much'; Latin: homo universalis, lit. 'universal human') is an individual whose...
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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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  • 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 Project is a collaboration among mathematicians to solve important and difficult mathematical problems by coordinating many mathematicians...
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    158775; -79.415990 Polymath Park is a 125-acre (0.51 km2) resort 60 miles (97 km) southeast of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, in the Laurel Highlands...
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  • 1872 – 13 January 1953) was a British polymath, translator, arts patron and civil servant. He was the sponsor of the Georgian school of poets and a friend...
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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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    Moors (redirect from The Moors)
    1091–1161, Andalusian physician and polymath Muhammad al-Idrisi, circa 1100–1166, Moorish geographer and polymath who drew the Tabula Rogeriana Ibn Tufail, circa...
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    debate. Many of his books look at aspects of what it is to be human, and how the technological implementation of scientific discoveries will affect us. His...
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  • best known as a historian of architecture and the author, with his first wife Joan Taylor, née Sills, of the three volumes of Anglo-Saxon Architecture, published...
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    The Ambedkar family is the family of B. R. Ambedkar (14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956) who was an Indian polymath and the chairman of the Constituent Drafting...
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    Simon Reynolds called him a "pop polymath, flitting between funkadelia, acid rock, deep soul, schmaltz—often within the same song". AllMusic wrote that...
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    such polymaths as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, who inspired the term "Renaissance man". In politics, the Renaissance contributed to the development...
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  • Mathematics (category Pages using sidebar with the child parameter)
    Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and...
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    The Last Man Who Knew Everything (2006), written by Andrew Robinson, is a biography of the British polymath Thomas Young (1773–1829). This biography is...
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    an American polymath: a leading writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political philosopher. Among the most influential...
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    Deborah Read (category British emigrants to the Thirteen Colonies)
    1708 – December 19, 1774) was the common-law wife of Benjamin Franklin, polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Little is known...
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    one of the conceptions of the revered Italian polymath and artist Leonardo da Vinci. The concept was designed while Leonardo da Vinci was under the patronage...
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    December 1681) was a German intellectual. He made significant contributions to the study of medicine, politics and law. Descended from Lutheran clergy on both...
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  • polymaths. Multipotentiality refers simply to one's potential in multiple fields owing to his/her diverse interests and attempts. Polymaths, on the other...
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  • (μανθάνειν, μαθ-; "to learn", as in polymath). Philomathy is similar to, but distinguished from, philosophy in that -soph, the latter suffix, specifies "wisdom"...
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    the Magnificent (1520–1566), the empire reached the peak of its power, prosperity, and political development. By the start of the 17th century, the Ottomans...
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    S2CID 153551739. Archived (PDF) from the original on 31 March 2022. Retrieved 21 January 2022. Dahlburg, John-Thor; Marshall, Tyler (7 September 1991)...
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    Istanbul (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, straddling the Bosporus Strait, the boundary between Europe and Asia. It is considered the country's economic,...
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    James Crichton (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    known as the Admirable Crichton (19 August 1560 – 3 July 1582), was a Scottish polymath noted for his extraordinary accomplishments in languages, the arts...
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    Computer (redirect from The computer)
    published in 1901 by the Paris Academy of Sciences. Charles Babbage, an English mechanical engineer and polymath, originated the concept of a programmable...
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    to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast...
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    Nuremberg in 1689 by the polymath Johann Weikhard von Valvasor. It is the most important work on his homeland, the Duchy of Carniola, the present-day central...
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  • Pennsylvania, he worked in the New York theatre in the late 1930s before moving to Hollywood in 1940. His film career was interrupted by the Hollywood blacklist...
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    this would cause there to be too much phlegm. Persian polymath Avicenna (980–1037 AD) extended the theory of temperaments in his Canon of Medicine, which...
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