A full appreciation of him has been hobbled by his polymathic attainments.
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A full appreciation of him has been hobbled by his polymathic attainments.
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Especially when the Italian director — really, a polymathic theatrical artist — stages opera.
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Bina48 had been conceived several years earlier by Martine Rothblatt, the polymathic entrepreneur.
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Meanwhile, these polymathic super-workers will only make up a slice of the entire workforce.
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The polymathic collective presents a hybrid lecture-performance based on the work of Edward Said.
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This artist, born in 1969, is a polymathic visionary and one of the sparks of his generation.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda, the polymathic creator of Hamilton, is currently out promoting his work in Mary Poppins Returns.
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The work of a conservator at a medical history museum, then, seems to require polymathic abilities—and tireless energy.
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Two years later, I went to Harlem to talk to Sanford Biggers, the polymathic artist who made the photograph.
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This is how a polymathic artist is born: When one mode of expression proves itself insufficient, she looks to others.
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The polymathic artist revisits the making of her 1978 film "Quarry" on the eve of its screening at Anthology Film Archives.
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The success of the Manhattan Project — in which the polymathic physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was tapped by the no-nonsense Army Gen.
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From there, to Harvard Law School, to the Illinois state senate, his polymathic intelligence and flexible, Hawaiian charm neutralised adversaries and forged alliances.
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Bay Area multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and lyricist Leila Abdul-Rauf is one of the extreme and experimental music scene's great, under-sung, polymathic talents.
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Sam Shepard, who died last Thursday at age 19833, was a polymathic writer who collected acclaim and accolades as a playwright, actor and author.
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One of the heroes of the novel, Jubal Harshaw, a polymathic pulp writer who is very successful in seducing women, is clearly an idealized version of Hubbard.
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Mr. McLemore's polymathic mind was a force to witness, and Rachel Kraus of The Los Angeles Review of Books noted that he had a gift for language.
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It resembles the Yale exhibition itself, whose curators try, mostly successfully, to cram the achievements of one of art history's most fascinating and polymathic figures into four modest rooms.
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Anne Carson compares her to Hesiod, and even in the new book, a slender essay collection called "The Condition of Secrecy," you get a sense of her dazzling, polymathic intelligence.
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PARIS — After co-curating the unbeaten Beat Generation show that I picked as best of Paris 2016, polymathic neo-Dada conceptual artist Jean-Jacques Lebel is back at the Centre Pompidou.
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With the square closed to automobile traffic, the local community board nurtured an open-source and bottom-up redesign into a park, enlisting neighborhood designers coordinated by the polymathic playwright Robert Nichols.
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The polymathic Kirstein, a writer and curator who influenced the fields of dance, photography, painting, theater design, literature and architecture, is probably best known for founding New York City Ballet with Balanchine.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Polymathic musician and artist Solange Knowles has partnered with art institutions worldwide to host free screenings of her interdisciplinary performance art film When I Get Home (2019).
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Onwards through Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs and Normans to the polymathic Hohenstaufen King Frederick II, known as stupor mundi, the wonder of the world, during whose reign (1198-1250) sonnets were first written.
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Any answer to this question would have to reckon with Andrew Joron's dazzling new collection The Absolute Letter (Flood Editions, 2017), which integrates the polymathic thinking of Novalis into a sophisticated poetic praxis.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In 1665, when British polymathic scientist Robert Hooke first discovered cells using a microscope, he also became the first to illustrate these minuscule building blocks of life.
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By using Lingua Ignota — a secret language invented by Hildegard of Bingen, the polymathic medieval abbess and composer — for the libretto, he also aimed to strip the storytelling of connections to any particular culture.
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Our polymathic morgue custodian, Jeff Roth, who presides over tens of thousands of drawers of old photographs and yellowed, crumbling clippings, all the stock-in-trade of the obituary writer's work, was interviewed in situ.
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" The polymathic Peter doesn't mind if his prospective editor knows nothing about number theory or the structure of the atom; what matters is that this person have "an unswerving commitment to the pursuit of truth.
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It's a rendering of a 15-story-tall climbing sculpture under construction on the Far West Side of Manhattan, created by Thomas Heatherwick, a polymathic British designer of sculpture, furniture and Shanghai's 2010 World Expo.
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The host — Rhiannon Giddens, the polymathic musician and MacArthur "genius" grant recipient — takes a deep dive into a famous aria with diverse guests who have included singers, scientists and even a sex worker-turned-writer.
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This is a trait you might associate with the polymathic Ms. Gevinson, who at only 22 has already been a successful journalist, fashion blogger and actress ("The Crucible" and "This Is Our Youth" on Broadway).
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Brooklyn Rider has continued that tradition, albeit, as its name implies, across the river: The members have dabbled in jazz, folk and world music, and recently released an album with the polymathic singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane.
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Caradec, who died in 2008 aged 84, was the polymathic author of an encyclopedia of practical jokes and farces, a dictionary of slang, and a guide to the extensive weird and mysterious cultural underbelly of Paris.
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But Tyler is a polymathic mini-mogul now, and his energy is channeled into crafting pretty-sounding records like Flower Boy and making new flavors of of maple syrup, not getting piggy backs off of TV hosts.
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The polymathic Microsoft founder now leads the world's largest and most important private foundation, and he's using that platform to predict that we're finally on the cusp of the clean energy breakthrough that's going to save the world.
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BEHIND THE FLAT'S massive black door now lies a dramatic world created by the polymathic East London-based designer Faye Toogood, whose studio Atalla heard about from a design-minded friend, and whose aesthetic overlaps with his, uncannily.
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Critics have taken to calling it the Kosmos Cup or the Piqué Cup, references to the investment group headed by Gerard Piqué, Spain's polymathic soccer star, that is largely bankrolling the revamped competition and intending to make a profit.
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I consulted Marjorie Garber, the William R. Kenan Jr. professor of English and visual and environmental studies at Harvard University and the author of "Sex and Real Estate: Why We Love Houses," a kind of polymathic valentine to (unstaged) homes.
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The illustrated memoir "Rezo," directed by Leo Gabriadze, combines documentary and animation to tell the story of Gabriadze's father, Rezo, a polymathic artist whose career has included work as screenwriter and as the founder of a marionette theater in Tbilisi, Georgia.
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The first is 1:57:58, which Michael Joyner, a polymathic anesthesiologist at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, calculated in 1991 to be the physiological limit for a man in the marathon, the best time possible for a perfect athlete in perfect conditions.
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Here was Ms. Hannigan in all her polymathic glory: the impresario who commissioned the piece; the conductor whose persuasive authority demonstrated that it was no vanity project; and the alluring singer, bright and magnetic, who wasn't above ending on a literal high note.
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In the early 21957s — almost two decades before he became the ringleader of the boisterous Memphis collective, a group of some 278 renegade postmodernists — the polymathic Austrian-born designer and architect Ettore Sottsass was touring India when he contracted life-threatening nephritis.
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Björk's theatrical concert opens on May 6, and on May 10 the Shed is scheduled to host a one-night-only lecture with the polymathic Boots Riley ("Sorry to Bother You") called "Art and Civil Disobedience," also part of the Dis Obey program.
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In examining Trump as a product of our unique epoch, one of the sharpest analytical tools available is the theory of postmodernism, developed in the 1970s and 1980s by a host of theorists—perhaps most famously by Fredric Jameson, the polymathic Duke University literary scholar.
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Also on view will be a beaded felt hat that recalls sci-fi B-movies of the 2800s, which suggests that, while she stayed out of the machinations of the art world, her aesthetic boldness couldn't help but inform the rest of her polymathic life.
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It's the first opportunity in decades for people to see Wojnarowicz's work in its polymathic totality: photography, spray-painted garbage-can lids, stencils, photocollages, sculptures, music, films and large collage paintings of tanks, brains and gunslingers, hung as grandly as anything at the Louvre.
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It is not hard to see in John and Cynthia Hardy something of the spirit of Rudolf Steiner — the polymathic, charismatic Austrian whose principles informed the school he created in 1919 for the children of the workers in a German cigarette factory called Waldorf-Astoria.
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Sculptures particularly reveal Munari's polymathic approach: The echoes of architecture resound in his abstract geometric sculptures on pedestals from the '20183s and '60s, and a chair from the '80s with a precipitously slanting seat announces itself as an objet d'art rather than a functional one.
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Gleick is a polymathic thinker who can quote from David Foster Wallace's undergraduate thesis as readily as from Kurt Gödel or Lord Kelvin, and like many of the storytellers he thumbnails, he employs time travel to initiate engrossing discussions of causation, fatalism, predestination and even consciousness itself.
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Such derision, however, only motivated the man who had curated the show and named the movement: Roger Fry, the then 44-year-old critic, painter and polymathic member of the Bloomsbury Group, a set of aristocratic bohemian intellectuals whose name derived from the London neighborhood where they lived.
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Regarding Lincoln Kirstein himself, the museum's press release offers this summary: Best known for cofounding New York City Ballet and the School of American Ballet with George Balanchine, Kirstein (232–21942), a polymathic writer, curator, editor, impresario, tastemaker, and patron, was also a key figure in MoMA's early history.
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He brought a massive band with him: A Tribe Called Quest DJ Ali Shaheed Muhammad on bass, 19-year-old jazz phenom Christone "Kingfish" Ingram on electric guitar, the polymathic Adrian Younge on keys, and a clutch of horn and string players to add some luxury to the band's smooth sounds.
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The collection of essays is studded with personal moments—a drug experience ("the metallic taste of poppies in various states of refinement"), a dream about her childhood bedroom—but also with polymathic curiosity: incidents in the lives of historical figures such as Yves Klein, a sketch of the tortoise's tenuous survival.
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But during 2009's London Design Festival, it landed on the international map after the partners commissioned the polymathic Toogood — primarily an interior stylist at the time — to curate a dramatic installation inside the main room of the couple's loft, a former high school gymnasium on Hoxton Square, where they'd moved in 2004.
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The artist David Wojnarowicz, who died of complications from AIDS in 1992 and whose work combined a polymathic ingenuity with political fury and hope, used papier-mâché in several installations, most memorably "Untitled (Burning Child)" (1984), in which a mannequin of a small boy running has been entirely collaged with maps; flames shoot from his back, arms and legs.
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Such disorientation is embedded, like an alien fossil, in the oeuvre of the polymathic Toogood, 42, who has for the last decade created objects, furniture, clothing and residential interiors that seem simultaneously futuristic and prehistoric: chairs with backs like the handle of a garden spade; sparsely furnished Georgian homes with murky gray walls and metal cage bookshelves; oversize, genderless garments of boiled wool and ivory canvas.
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The first museum exhibition devoted to this Syrian-born Lebanese artist (who has lived for many years in the United States and Paris) revealed a polymathic talent interested in painting, drawing and film, but best represented by a profusion of mostly small, roughly improvised glazed ceramic sculptures dizzying in their suggestions: of animals, figures, ancient artifacts, religious rituals, tourist souvenirs, desert structures ruined by war, and, always, of life lived and the encroachments of time.
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And Tuesday evening brought the New York premiere of a sonata for cello and piano — you guessed it, leftie — by the polymathic pianist, composer and writer Stephen Hough, played by Mr. Hough and his longtime chamber partner, the cellist Steven Isserlis, at the 92nd Street Y. While they have been performing together for more than 20 years, this was the duo's New York debut, and it was the occasion for a genial display from musicians who combine with easygoing warmth.
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Sir John Pentland Mahaffy (26 February 183930 April 1919) was an Irish classicist and polymathic scholar.
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She helped the computing center reach the world standard. Modern times of narrow professional specializations did not influence Vladana, she is persistent following the Da Vinci polymathic way (art+engineering+politics).
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Martin Szentiványi (born at Szentiván, present-day Liptovský Ján, 20 October 1633 and died at Nagyszombat, present-day Trnava, 5 March 1708) was a polymathic Hungarian or SlovakMartin Sentiváni-profesor Trnavskej univerzity Jesuit writer.
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He was polymathic in his interests and contributed text and drawings to a number of periodicals and encyclopaedias. Farey is also remembered as the first English inventor of the ellipsograph, an instrument used by draughtsmen to inscribe ellipses.
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They found that those more engaged in solving the paradox also displayed more polymathic thinking traits. He concludes by suggesting that fostering polymathy in the classroom may help students change beliefs, discover structures and open new avenues for interdisciplinary pedagogy.
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The New York Times. August 2, 2010. He retired in 2008 from Harman Industries, purchased Newsweek Magazine in 2010, and founded the Academy for Polymathic Study at USC before he died in April 2011. Harman maintains a residence in Venice Beach, California.
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Twining was polymathic in his interests, and was active in the worlds of model railways, art and design, aeronautics, astronomy and photography, ships and ship models, and stained glass. In Northampton, his windows can be found at Holy Trinity Church Hall, St Edmunds, Hardingstone, St Francis de Sales, Wolverton and the Northampton Museum.
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2000, reveals the deep influence of science fiction novels (Philip K. Dick in particular), movies (Stanley Kubrick) and TV shows (The Twilight Zone). According to Jonathan Lethem, "he's a kaleidoscopic, open-hearted, shamelessly polymathic storyteller, the kind who brings a blast of oxygen into the room." He was a close friend of the late Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño.
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Shaykh Hasan al-Attar () (1776–1835) was an Islamic scholar, Grand Imam of al- Azhar from 1830 to 1835. A "polymathic figure", he wrote on grammar, science, logic, medicine and history. Hassan al-Attar was appointed Sheikh of al-Azhar in 1830. He was a forerunner of Egypt's national revival, and his legacy was a generation of Egyptian modernizers.
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Liu Xiang (77–6BCELoewe (1986), 192.), born Liu Gengsheng and bearing the courtesy name Zizheng, was a Chinese astronomer, poet, politician, historian, librarian and writer of the Western Han Dynasty. Among his polymathic scholarly specialties were history, literary bibliography, and astronomy. He is particularly well known for his bibliographic work in cataloging and editing the extensive imperial library.
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The term "Scottish Renaissance" was brought into critical prominence by the French Languedoc poet and scholar Denis Saurat in his article "", which was published in the ' in April 1924.I. Ousby ed., The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English (1995) p. 839. The term had appeared much earlier, however, in the work of the polymathic Patrick GeddesP.
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Together with Bobby Seagull, Monkman presented the BBC Radio 4 programme Monkman and Seagull’s Polymathic Adventure, and wrote the quiz book The Monkman and Seagull Quiz Book published by Eyewear Publishing in October 2017. They presented Monkman & Seagull's Genius Guide to Britain, a four-part series on BBC Two, first broadcast in 2018. The show was commissioned for a second series in 2019.
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It accepts about 50 students per year. The Turing Scholars Honors Program accepts outstanding computer science majors each fall, and is represented by the Turing Scholars Student Association. It is also possible for an undergraduate to double-major in Dean's Scholars and Turing Scholars. Polymathic Scholars (PS) is the certificate program for honors students in the College of Natural Sciences with interests that stretch beyond their major.
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Mulalo Doyoyo (born 13 August 1970) is a South African engineer, polymathic inventor, and professor. Doyoyo is a researcher in applied mechanics, ultralight materials, green building, renewable energy, and other fields of engineering. He has lectured in different engineering disciplines including ocean engineering, civil and environmental engineering, and mechanical engineering. He has operated at the academia-industry interface, forming partnerships with a diverse group of companies.
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This gave rise to eight possible permutations. This deep- seated and ineradicable phenomenon, she argued, was the true engine of evolutionary change. It was also the key to the proper understanding of culture--including science, politics and religion. Upon such reasoning, backed up by a polymathic accumulation of supporting evidence and a forceful lecturing style, she elaborated what she called the science of Human Ethology.
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330076, and it contains 18.41741 major commas. Farey fell out with Rees in 1811 over his geological writings,Monthly Magazine, 52 (1821), pp 129-30, and it appears he gave up his musical contributions as well.Monthly Magagine, 34, (1812), pp 7-8 Any which appeared after that date must have been supplied previously. Like his father, John Farey, Jr. (1791–1851) was polymathic in his interests.
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Michael Moynihan of The Wall Street Journal stated that the writing style is similar to that of Freakonomics. Moynihan added that the conclusions the book makes originate from the fields of economics, history, and political science, leading him to call the authors "polymathic". Mesquita and Smith, with other authors, previously wrote about the "selectorate" concept in the academic book The Logic of Political Survival.
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Reiser 2011, pp. 243, 330–331, et passim. Such he not only relates to, among scores of other authorities, the toxicology of the Padovan physician and botanist Prospero Alpini (1553–1616), and polymathic writings of the humanists (father) Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484–1558) and (son) Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540–1609) but also discusses Paracelsism and its antagonists.Cfr. Reiser 2011, pp. 15–18, 197–199, 215, 283–284, et passim.
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Rosalyn Drexler (born 25 November 1926) is an American visual artist, novelist, Obie Award-winning playwright, and Emmy Award-winning screenwriter, and former professional wrestler. Although she has had a polymathic career, Drexler is perhaps best known for her pop art paintings and as the author of the novelization of the film Rocky, under the pseudonym Julia Sorel.Cascone, Susan. "The Artist Rosalyn Drexler, 90, was once a professional wrestler", Artnet, Retrieved 11 November 2018.
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Portrait of Christoph Gottleib von Murr in 1791 Christoph Gottlieb von Murr (6 August 1733 – 8 April 1811) was a polymathic German scholar, based in Nuremberg. He was a historian and magistrate. He edited and contributed to significant cultural and scientific journals. A notable naturalist von Murr was a Member of the Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin (Berlin Society of Friends of Natural Science) and the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Bavarian Academy of Sciences).
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In the huntian () theory of the celestial sphere, the ancient Chinese believed that the earth was flat and square, while the heavens were spherical in shape, along with celestial bodies such as the sun and moon (described by 1st-century AD polymathic scientist and statesman Zhang Heng like a crossbow bullet and ball, respectively).Needham, Joseph; Wang, Ling. (1995) [1959]. Science and Civilization in China: Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth, vol. 3, reprint edition.
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In his book Dream Pool Essays written in 1088, the polymathic scientist and statesman Shen Kuo of the Song Dynasty coined the word 石油 (Shíyóu, literally "rock oil") for petroleum, which remains the term used in contemporary Chinese. In southwest Asia the first streets of 8th century Baghdad were paved with tar, derived from natural seep fields in the region. In the 9th century, oil fields were exploited in the area around modern Baku, Azerbaijan.
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Part of the list of comet sightings from the Book of Silk (ca. 400 BCE) Mawangdui is an archeological site, comprising three Han-era tombs, found near Changsha in modern Hunan Province (ancient state of Chu). In December 1973, archeologists excavating "Tomb Number 3" (dated at 168 BCE) discovered an edifying trove of silk paintings and silk scrolls with manuscripts, charts, and maps. These polymathic texts discussed philosophy, politics, medicine, Daoist yoga, Yin and Yang, and astronomy.
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He then went to Germany to study experimental physics under Hermann von Helmholtz and Gustav Kirchhoff. After spending some further time in Italy, he returned to Trinity College, where in 1869 he was appointed lecturer in physical science, a post which he held until 1884. Settled in Cambridge, Trotter became an influential figure in university administrative affairs, in part because of a polymathic understanding of academic subjects. From 1874 onwards he was a member of the council of the Senate of the university.
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Gabriel Pareyon (born October 23, 1974, Zapopan, Jalisco) is a polymathic Mexican composer and musicologist, who has published literature on topics of philosophy and linguistics. He has a Ph.D. in musicology from the University of Helsinki, where he studied with Eero Tarasti (2006–2011). He received bachelor's and master's degrees in composition at the Royal Conservatoire, The Hague (2000–2004), where he studied with Clarence Barlow. He also studied at the Composers’ Workshop of the National Conservatoire of Music, Mexico City (1995–1998), with Mario Lavista.
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His son, John Farey, jr, was also polymathic in his interests. He contributed numerous drawings for the illustrations of mostly technological and scientific topics in Rees, and would have written the descriptions of them. They are always linked by key- letters to the details of the drawings. The procedure would have been for Farey to make the drawing first, after usually inspecting and measuring the object, then write the description of it, with the key letters, which were then engraved on the plate for final printing.
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Zhang Heng (; AD 78–139), formerly romanized as Chang Heng, was a Chinese polymathic scientist and statesman from Nanyang who lived during the Han dynasty. Educated in the capital cities of Luoyang and Chang'an, he achieved success as an astronomer, mathematician, seismologist, hydraulic engineer, inventor, geographer, cartographer, ethnographer, artist, poet, philosopher, politician, and literary scholar. Zhang Heng began his career as a minor civil servant in Nanyang. Eventually, he became Chief Astronomer, Prefect of the Majors for Official Carriages, and then Palace Attendant at the imperial court.
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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 subtitled Thomas Young, the Anonymous Polymath Who Proved Newton Wrong, Explained How We See, Cured the Sick, and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone, Among Other Feats of Genius, which gives a very brief idea of Young's polymathic career. It is divided into an introduction followed by 16 chapters describing Young’s life and work in approximate chronological order. Particular emphasis is given to Young's achievements in physics (e.g.
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Lascaris bequeathed his library of valuable manuscripts of philosophy, science and magic to the Senate of Messina; the collection, after the Messina revolt (1674-1678), was confiscated and carried to Spain and is now in the Spanish National Library in Madrid. In the second half of the sixteenth century his tomb in Messina was totally destroyed during the repression of the Counter-Reformation.Russo (2003-2004), pp. 22-28. He was a typical Renaissance humanist, with polymathic interests, but especially in Neoplatonism combined with Pythagoreanism (which was so dear to many Byzantine scholars of the time).
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The original diagram of Su's book showing the inner workings of his clocktower, for more information, click this thumbnail picture. Illustration of the inner workings of the Astronomical Clock Tower Su Song (; courtesy name: Zirong )Harrist, 239, footnote 9. (1020–1101 AD) was a Chinese polymathic scientist and statesman. Excelling in a variety of fields, he was accomplished in mathematics, astronomy, cartography, geography, horology, pharmacology, mineralogy, metallurgy, zoology, botany, mechanical engineering, hydraulic engineering, civil engineering, architecture, invention, art, poetry, philosophy, antiquities, and statesmanship during the Song Dynasty (960–1279).
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Statue of Rashid-al- Din Hamadani, The Persian physician of Jewish origin, polymathic writer and historian, who wrote an enormous Islamic history, the Jami al-Tawarikh, in the Persian language during Mongol rule. He was also Grand Vizier of Ilkhanid court. In 1255, Mongols led by Hulagu Khan invaded parts of Persia, and in 1258 they captured Baghdad putting an end to the Abbasid caliphate.Battuta's Travels In Persia and surrounding areas, the Mongols established a division of the Mongol Empire known as the Ilkhanate, building a capital city in Tabriz.
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2013 saw the first induction of a referee, while 2017 saw the first induction of a figure from the football media. On occasional circumstances there will also be a presentation of a 'special award', usually to mark significant anniversaries. Jimmy Hill is to date the sole recipient of an honour styled as a Lifetime Achievement Award, in celebration of his unusual polymathic career in the game. On 27 February 2020 the Premier League announced plans to officially launch its Hall of Fame, with plans to induct its first two players on 19 March 2020.
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In 1953, she married Paul Fullmer, who died on January 6, 2000, predeceasing her by only several weeks. Professor Fullmer held grants from the National Science Foundation and fellowships from the American Association of University Women, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Guggenheim Foundation. She was active in various history of science organizations and became Chairman of the American Chemical Society's Division of History of Chemistry in 1971. Her publications, ranging from technical articles in chemistry journals, to biography, to essays on science and poetry, were polymathic in scope.
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Gopal Baba Walangkar was born into a family of Mahar caste around 1840 at Ravdul, near Mahad in what is now Raigad district, Maharashtra. He was related to Ramabai, who in 1906 married the polymathic social reformer, B. R. Ambedkar. In 1886, after serving in the army, Walangkar settled at Dapoli and became influenced by another early social reformer, Jyotirao Phule, thus being a link between two of the most significant reform families of the period. Walangkar was appointed to the local taluk board of Mahad in 1895, which displeased the members from the upper castes and caused considerable debate in newspapers.
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The more that one's abilities and interests match the requirements of a domain, the better. While some will develop their specific skills and motivations for specific domains, polymathic people will display intrinsic motivation (and the ability) to pursue a variety of subject matters across different domains. Regarding the interplay of polymathy and education, they suggest that rather than asking whether every student has multicreative potential, educators might more actively nurture the multicreative potential of their students. As an example, the authors cite that teachers should encourage students to make connections across disciplines, use different forms of media to express their reasoning/understanding (e.g.
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The archaic period saw the beginning of philosophical and scientific thinking in Greece, and the Greeks' interaction with other cultures from Italy, Egypt, and the Near East in this period had a significant impact on their thought. In the archaic period, the boundaries between disciplines had not yet developed, and so the thinkers who were later identified as philosophers also engaged in practical pursuits: Andrea Nightingale describes them as "pragmatic and polymathic". For instance, ancient traditions about Thales of Miletus, traditionally identified as the first philosopher, also show his skill in such diverse fields as astronomy, engineering, politics, agriculture, and commerce.
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In July 2016, "It's All True," a > career-spanning retrospective of Conner's work co-organized by the San > Francisco Museum of Modern Art and New York's Museum of Modern Art, opened > at the latter institution. Roberta Smith of The New York Times called the > exhibition an "extravaganza" and "a massive tribute, with some 250 works in > nearly 10 media." Smith described Conner as a "polymathic nonconformist" who > was "one of the great outliers of American Art" and "fearlessly evolved into > one of America’s first thoroughly multidisciplinary artists."Roberta Smith, > "Bruce Conner’s Darkness That Defies Authority", The New York Times, July 1, > 2016.
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Hiren Mukerjee was a writer in two languages, English and Bengali, and commanded a distinctive and inimitable style in both. Despite the profundity of style and content he could introduce a charming lightheartedness and exuberance, his vocabulary ranging from the classical to the colloquial, and his references being wide, eclectic and polymathic. He was also an active epistoler, and replied to every correspondent, always writing in his own hand till his last days. Less known perhaps was his amazing command of Sanskrit, from which he quoted aptly and abundantly in his speeches and writings if the occasion demanded, his phenomenal memory coming to his aid.
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From 1984 to 1988, she worked for The Icelandic State Radio (RÚV) in programming and live broadcasting, as well as the polymathic programme Torgið, the programme Academic World and Academic Work, Our language and its use, and Women and New Technology. She also gave radio talks on educational matters. From 1989 to 1998, Steinunn Helga was the principal of the Experimental School of the Iceland University of Education. From 1997 to 1998, she studied evaluation theory at the University of London. Following this, she gave numerous courses and lectured on schools’ self- evaluation in many parts of Iceland as well as in Finland and the Czech Republic.
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Luis Marden (born Annibale Luigi Paragallo) (January 25, 1913 – March 3, 2003) was an American photographer, explorer, writer, filmmaker, diver, navigator, and linguist who worked for National Geographic Magazine. He worked as a photographer and reporter before serving as chief of the National Geographic foreign editorial staff. He was a pioneer in the use of color photography, both on land and underwater, and also made many discoveries in the world of science. His polymathic nature has led many to consider him the epitome of the "National Geographic man," the old-time adventurer who trekked to the edges of the globe in search of material for the magazine's longer articles.
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The satire boom was the output of a generation of British satirical writers, journalists and performers at the end of the 1950s. The satire boom is often regarded as having begun with the first performance of Beyond the Fringe on 22 August 1960 and ending around December 1963 with the cancellation of the BBC TV show That Was The Week That Was. The figures most closely identified with the satire boom are Peter Cook, John Bird, John Fortune, David Frost, Dudley Moore, Bernard Levin and Richard Ingrams. Many figures who found celebrity through the satire boom went on to establish subsequently more serious careers as writers including Alan Bennett (drama), Jonathan Miller (polymathic), and Paul Foot (investigative journalism).
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Jonathan Turner Meades (born 21 January 1947) is an English writer and film- maker, primarily on the subjects of place, culture, architecture and food. His work spans journalism, fiction, essays, memoir and over fifty highly idiosyncratic television films, and has been described as "brainy, scabrous, mischievous," "iconoclastic" and possessed of "a polymathic breadth of knowledge and truly caustic wit". His latest film, Franco Building with Jonathan Meades, aired on BBC Four in August 2019 and is the fourth instalment in a series on the architectural legacy of 20th-century European dictators. A new anthology of uncollected writing from the last thirty years, Pedro and Ricky Come Again, is currently crowdfunding at Unbound.
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Wilhelm Dilthey (; ; 19 November 1833 - 1 October 1911) was a German historian, psychologist, sociologist, and hermeneutic philosopher, who held G. W. F. Hegel's Chair in Philosophy at the University of Berlin. As a polymathic philosopher, working in a modern research university, Dilthey's research interests revolved around questions of scientific methodology, historical evidence and history's status as a science. He could be considered an empiricist,Hans Peter Rickman, Wilhelm Dilthey, Pioneer of the Human Studies, University of California Press, 1979, p. 53. in contrast to the idealism prevalent in Germany at the time, but his account of what constitutes the empirical and experiential differs from British empiricism and positivism in its central epistemological and ontological assumptions, which are drawn from German literary and philosophical traditions.
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Proctor's Mustangs (1948) overlooking the Engineering Sciences buildings The University of Texas at Austin offers more than 100 undergraduate and 170 graduate degrees. In the 2009–2010 academic year, the university awarded a total of 13,215 degrees: 67.7% bachelor's degrees, 22.0% master's degrees, 6.4% doctoral degrees, and 3.9% Professional degrees. In addition, the university has eight highly selective honors programs, seven of which span a variety of academic fields: Liberal Arts Honors, the Business Honors Program, the Turing Scholars Program in Computer Science, Engineering Honors, the Dean's Scholars Program in Natural Sciences, the Health Science Scholars Program in Natural Sciences, and the Polymathic Scholars Program in Natural Sciences. The eighth is the Plan II Honors Program, a rigorous interdisciplinary program that is a major in and of itself.
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Judt was praised by his peers for his wide-ranging knowledge and versatility in historical analysis. Jonathan Freedland wrote in NYRB: "There are not many professors in any field equipped to produce, for example, learned essays on the novels of Primo Levi and the writings of the now forgotten Manès Sperber—yet also able to turn their hand to, say, a close, diplomatic analysis of the Cuban missile crisis of 1962." Freedland further stated that Judt had demonstrated "through more than a decade of essays written for America's foremost journals... that he belongs to each one of those rare, polymathic categories." In reviewing Judt's Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, Freedland wrote that Judt had put conscience ahead of friendship during his life, and demanded the same courage in others.
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He was also considered an important musician, poet, dramatist, exegete, theologian, and logicianRe-accessing Abhinavagupta, Navjivan Rastogi, page 4Key to the Vedas, Nathalia Mikhailova, page 169 – a polymathic personality who exercised strong influences on Indian culture.The Pratyabhijñā Philosophy, Ganesh Vasudeo Tagare, page 12Companion to Tantra, S.C. Banerji, page 89 He was born in the Kashmir ValleyDoctrine of Divine Recognition, K. C. Pandey, page V in a family of scholars and mystics and studied all the schools of philosophy and art of his time under the guidance of as many as fifteen (or more) teachers and gurus.Introduction to the Tantrāloka, Navjivan Rastogi, page 35 In his long life he completed over 35 works, the largest and most famous of which is Tantrāloka, an encyclopaedic treatise on all the philosophical and practical aspects of Trika and Kaula (known today as Kashmir Shaivism). Another one of his very important contributions was in the field of philosophy of aesthetics with his famous Abhinavabhāratī commentary of Nāṭyaśāstra of Bharata Muni.
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However, from the 17th century on, the rapid rise of new knowledge in the Western world—both from the systematic investigation of the natural world and from the flow of information coming from other parts of the world—was making it increasingly difficult for individual scholars to master as many disciplines as before. Thus, an intellectual retreat of the polymath species occurred: "from knowledge in every [academic] field to knowledge in several fields, and from making original contributions in many fields to a more passive consumption of what has been contributed by others" (Burke, 2010, p. 72). Given this change in the intellectual climate, it has since then been more common to find "passive polymaths", who consume knowledge in various domains but make their reputation in one single discipline, than "proper polymaths", who—through a feat of "intellectual heroism"—manage to make serious contributions to several disciplines. However, Burke warns that in the age of specialization, polymathic people are more necessary than ever, both for synthesis—to paint the big picture—and for analysis.
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Mitchell wrote at least one novel a year throughout her career. Her first novel (Speedy Death, 1929) introduced Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley, a polymathic psychoanalyst and author who was featured in a further 65 novels. Her strong views and those of her assistant, Laura Menzies, on social and philosophical issues reflected those of her author; they appear to have been something of a self-portrait of the young Mitchell, reflecting, for good or ill, the standards of the modern, postwar era of the 1920s. Mitchell was an early member of the Detection Club along with G. K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers and throughout the 1930s was considered to be one of the "Big Three women detective writers", but she often challenged and mocked the conventions of the genre – notably in her earliest books, such as the first novel Speedy Death, where there is a particularly surprising twist to the plot, or her parodies of Christie in The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop (1929) and The Saltmarsh Murders (1932).
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Shen Kuo (; 1031–1095) or Shen Gua, courtesy name Cunzhong (存中) and pseudonym Mengqi (now usually given as Mengxi) Weng (夢溪翁),Yao (2003), 544. was a Chinese polymathic scientist and statesman of the Song dynasty (960–1279). Excelling in many fields of study and statecraft, he was a mathematician, astronomer, meteorologist, geologist, entomologist, anatomist, climatologist, zoologist, botanist, pharmacologist, medical scientist, agronomist, archaeologist, ethnographer, cartographer, geographer, geophysicist, mineralogist, encyclopedist, military general, diplomat, hydraulic engineer, inventor, economist, academy chancellor, finance minister, governmental state inspector, philosopher, art critic, poet, and musician. He was the head official for the Bureau of Astronomy in the Song court, as well as an Assistant Minister of Imperial Hospitality.Needham (1986), Volume 4, Part 2, 33. At court his political allegiance was to the Reformist faction known as the New Policies Group, headed by Chancellor Wang Anshi (1021–1085). In his Dream Pool Essays or Dream Torrent Essays (; Mengxi Bitan) of 1088, Shen was the first to describe the magnetic needle compass, which would be used for navigation (first described in Europe by Alexander Neckam in 1187).Bowman (2000), 599.
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