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If Charles I owned a real Leonardo before he was executed in 1649, this means our national love affair with the Renaissance polymath has been going on for almost 400 years.
Mathematician, physicist and writer (1706-1749) Suggested by LessSure LessSure explores the Age of Enlightenment to find the little-known French polymath Émilie du Châtelet.
Mansfield, 30, who is married with a young child, is something of a polymath.
Science writer and polymath (1780-1872) Suggested byAlphagamma Alphagamma thinks that Scottish science writer and polymath Mary Fairfax Somerville deserves an honourable mention for being "the person for whom the term 'scientist' was first coined".
Presently, a celebration is under way of Flann O'Brien's ingenious novel "At Swim-Two-Birds", which treats Irish history and literature as a fit subject for farce.On May 25th, however, these fine and funny writers found themselves in the shade of the capo di tutti i capi, W.B. Yeats, the polymath 's polymath.
FOR the past century mathematicians have struggled to prove the conjecture of a late-19th-century French polymath , Henri Poincaré.
Understandably, he destroyed many of his private papers, which is one reason why the life and work of Hobbes has long been such a tricky subject for scholars.But things are looking up for the Monster, thanks to the labours of Noel Malcolm, a polymath at All Souls College, Oxford, and a former journalist and commentator.
OUT of Africa, always something new", wrote Caius Plinius Secundus, a Roman polymath who helped to invent the field of natural history.
If in London, where the plays premiered in 2002, overcoming the characters' obscurity was a challenge, in Moscow the issue will be prejudice.The obvious Russian home for the plays, translated by Arkady Ostrovsky, a polymath writer at the Financial Times, and his brother Sergei, is the Moscow Art Theatre.
What is known is that by the ninth century Arab authors such as Jaber bin Hayyan, an Iraqi polymath best known for elaborating al-jabr or algebra, were describing "flammable vapours" at the mouths of heated wine vessels.His contemporary, the legendary poet and lush Abu Nawas (who died in 815AD), was less prim.
Isn't that great?No, says Jaron Lanier, a technologist, musician and polymath who is best known for his pioneering work in the field of virtual reality.
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The term "polymath" functions primarily as a noun , designating a person of wide-ranging knowledge or learning. Ludwig examples show it used to describe historical figures and contemporary individuals alike, highlighting their diverse expertise. Ludwig AI confirms its acceptability in English.
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