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  • Polymath is Greek for renaissance person; someone with the ability to do many remarkable things because they are experts across many disciplines.

    Resources | ZDNet 2010

  • Two years ago, Emily Miller launched her company under the name Polymath because she does a bit of everything, from designing to teaching.

    Stylefinds 2009

  • He and Timothy Gowers (one of many brilliant British mathematicians) recently looked at a Wiki-style method of approaching mathematical research called the Polymath

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • At the Delany group on Yahoo several people have bought the DVD of "Polymath" this week.

    SF Tidbits for 9/17/09 2009

  • Polymath scientists were writing the earliest environmental analyses of pollution, and translators were burning through everything they could get their hands on.

    teaching recap, weeks 1 & 2 | Radical Futures Project 2010

  • Thurday (Lunchtime) Highlights | Pseudo-Polymath says:

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Benjamin Wittes Comments on His AQ7 Letter at The New Republic 2010

  • Polymath librettist Tom Phillips and composer Tarik O'Regan take us to the "Heart of Darkness," turning Joseph Conrad's African Congo masterpiece into opera at the Linbury Nov. 1-5.

    Packing in the Performances 2011

  • Ventures such as the Polymath Project remain the exception, not the rule.

    The New Einsteins Will Be Scientists Who Share Michael Nielsen 2011

  • Polymath stoner Mike possesses a photographic memory and dreams of being a lawyer, but has been barred from every school in the country after getting caught selling test papers.

    TV highlights 17/01/2012 2012

  • Notable revivals include William Klein's "Eldridge Cleaver" (1969); Peter Adair's visit to an Appalachian snake-handler's cult, "The Holy Ghost People" (1967); and Fred Barney Taylor's "The Polymath, or The Life and Opinions of Samuel R. Delany, Gentleman" (2007), about the visionary novelist whose identity (gay, mixed race) informs his work in radical ways.

    Music, Mutants and Morality 2010

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