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[pol-ee-math] / ˈpɒl iˌmæθ /






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Goldsmith's history of combining concepts from disparate scientific fields was recognized in 2022 with a Polymath award from Schmidt Futures.

From Science Daily • May 30, 2024

Instead of a few mathematicians at one or two universities chipping away at a problem—the typical research model in math —the Polymath Project takes a crowdsourcing approach.

From Scientific American • Sep. 19, 2023

Moira: Fraudulent Theater Polymath should be the name of a band, or maybe a restaurant.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 24, 2023

For example, Peter Burke’s “The Polymath: A Cultural History From Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag” catalogues men and women who have contributed significant advances to more than one field of knowledge.

From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2020

Polymath and future Nobel laureate Herbert Simon, and computer scientist Allen Newell, favoured the name “complex information processing”.

From Nature • Oct. 1, 2019




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