polymath

• It turns out that, in fact, the world was given this gift in 1738 by a Dutch polymath named Daniel Bernoulli. —  Dan Gilbert on our mistaken expectations
• But while my core research is hyper-specialized, I think of myself, by contrast, as a polymath.
• Morgenstern the economist and John von Neumann the polymath are longtime colleagues. —  Aeon Five
• But he's always been a polymath, reading widely across disciplines and into the history of science and theology. —  Omni: October 1994
• Sitting behind the Presidential desk (rosewood, as it happens, and very nice too) is a man whom later generations will call a polymath, a statesman-philosopher, a true product of the enlightenment. —  F ;SF - vol 101 issue 03 - September 2001

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