Polymath

Growing up, you may have been told it's not cool to be a "nerd." Well, we've got 10 people who would beg to differ. These 10 smartest people of all time are not only incredibly accomplished, but they're also insanely smart. Check out the full list below. A child prodigy who is now considered to be the greatest German mathematician of all time, Carl Gauss had an estimated IQ between 250 and 300. Gauss was particularly adept in the study of electromagnetism.English physicist Thomas Young had an IQ…

Lyndsay Larson Mrs. Belcher CNA Program 24 August 2017 Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance Polymath with a lot of different interests. Some of these interests included: invention, painting, architecture, science, mathematics, music, engineering, anatomy, history, and botany. Leonardo da Vinci is primarily known as a painter, and some of his most famous paintings included the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. He was born on April 15, 1452 in Anchiano. Anchiano is…

LITERATURE Henri Poincaré’s valuable ideas were documented in the many books and papers he published on mathematics. Although he never published an autobiography, several biographies have been written about him. Henri Poincaré worked with literature in such a way that the average could easily connect with his ideas. In his lifetime, Poincaré published more than twenty-five volumes of writings (Henri Poincare : Biography 10). Many of his works were constructed originally as smaller…

Sarah Braun, a 2007 Monmouth College graduate, is living proof that curiosity can take you anywhere. The showcase of Braun’s adventurous lifestyle and attitude was a wonderful way for us incoming college freshman to see the many opportunities that can be possible if one only strives hard enough and applies themselves within a liberal arts curriculum. Braun’s thesis of curiosity can take you anywhere applies to our recent reading of the book Curious by Ian Leslie. As Braun mentioned within the…

Article 1 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is better called master consulting detective Sherlock Holmes' founder. All these reports appeared within the String magazine from 1891 to 1927, several created by Sidney Paget's famous images in serialised form. There's been a contemporary meaning of the investigative duo using the BBC Tv series Sherlock, starring Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch. Series 1 was televised in the next sequence as well as in 2012, with recording of the third currently underway…

Bootstrap philosophy is a philosophy that asserts the universal interconnectedness of all things, especially the connections and inter-dependence of all elementary particles. It was introduced by the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead in his publication ‘Process and Reality’. At the time of the writing, elementary particle physics did not yet exist. Whitehead only applied this philosophy to biology. In the mathematics of computer science, this bootstrap philosophy is equivalent to feedback loops…

The book, although invaluable for the historical information it contained, was written under the Ilkhanate’s rule by a Muslim polymath, which meant information was carefully selected, such that the roles of Judaism and Christianity were minimized in favor of Islam (Atwood, 2004). Among the various illustrations is Hulagu and his favored wife, a Nestorian Christian Turkic princess…

He, on the other hand, is like any other teenager. He’s average smart, although he shares a love for words. He shows more emotion and interest especially in women, whom he would chase and manipulate until the global plague. Crake was a prodigal polymath who was a little detached from human feeling. He never gave into anger and passion. He is driven more from reason than emotion. He was like a machine; he was cold and impassive, bound by logic only. Jimmy relates to us readers better because he’s…

Which plays a bigger role? Nature, the effects of genetics or Nurture, the effects of environment? Psychologists have been wanting to know the answer for ages, long debates on what could or could not be the bigger role of the science in Psychology. What is Psychology? Psychology is the act of studying the mind and behavior. There is 2 different categories of behavior, you have the overt behavior which is observing directly, examples include talking, running or even blinking. Then you have…

Leonardo Da Vinci was an Italian polymath, which means that he was specialised into areas including: invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science and other subjects related. Looking at his artisic side, he is recognised as one of the best painters, widely popular through his highly influencial paitings of the Renaissance such as the Last Supper or Mona Lisa, paintings which remained widely known until today. Fascinated by his wide range of specialized fields, I began taking an interest…