Imagine being able to fit perfectly in a wide range of field like leonardo da vinci
Imagine being best or second best in any field like aristotle

Imagine being a real genius

Imagine being a POLYMATH

Who is a polymath?-a polymath is a "person" with expertise in a wide range of fields,example being a physicist,a philosopher,a poet, a mathematician,a musician,an artist,an astronomer an engineer,a black belter in martial art et al-lol that's a lot of genius already

But these polymaths had died---The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of
the eighteenth century, and in the following century
intensive education replaced extensive, so that by the
end of it the specialist had evolved. The consequence is that today everyone is a mere technician, even the artist...Dietrich Bonhoeffer,( Letters and Papers
from Prison)

Is this quote really true? Are the polymaths really dead? Before we answer this questions,,here is a list of this universal geniuses

Starting with the best and ending with the best

1--•Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)-every aspiring expert know leonardo,the man who wants to know everything,-- Italian Renaissance painter, inventor,engineer,astronomer, anatomist, biologist,
geologist, physicist, and architect.

2--Claudius Ptolemy (90 – 168 AD) was a scienttist, mathematician, astronomer, geographer, and poet. He lived in Egypt under Roman rule, and is credited for the Geocentric theory where the Earch is in the center of the solar system.

3---Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543)--is heliocentric cosmology marked the beginning of modern astronomy--- , Polish
Renaissance astronomer,
mathematician,physician,artist,classical
,scholar,translator, economist,
governor, military leader, and diplomat.

4---hypatia of Alexandria(350 -415 AD)--many of us know maria curie and her daughter but there is also a woman called hypatia daughter of the mathematician theon

----was a Greek
mathematician, philosopher,musician, and
astronomer. She lived in Egypt, and was
killed by a Christian mob--when the Coptic bishop
John of Nikiû identified her as a Hellenistic pagan

5--Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) (965–1039),an Iraqi scientist,physicist,anatomist,physician,psychologist, astronomer,engineer,inventor,mathematician,ophthalmologist, philosopher, and theologian.

Worth mentioning--He was one of the first to
formulate the scientific method,

6---•Zhang Heng (78-139)--many of us know of the seismometer(earth quake detectors)-heng invented it----, Han Dynasty Chinese politician, historian, philosopher, poet,mathematician, astronomer, geographer,cartographer, painter, sculptor, and inventor.

7---Avicenna (980–1037), Persian astronomer,chemist,geologist,logician,paleontologist, mathematician, physicist, poet, psychologist, and scientist. He wrote almost 450. He is known as the father of modern medicine. He is also considered the father of the fundamentalconcept of momentum in physics.

8--Shen Kuo (1031–1095), Chinese scientist,statesman, mathematician, astronomer,
meteorologist, geologist, zoologist,botanist, pharmacologist, agronomist,encyclopedist, poet, general, diplomat,hydraulic engineer, and inventor.

9--Sir Isaac Newton (1643–1727) English physicist,mathematician, astronomer,
and alchemist. His 1687 publication of the Principia is one of the most influential books in science. It is in this work that Newton described gravitation and the three laws of motion.

An lastly

10--Aristotle (384–322 BC), Greek
philosopher, a student of Plato, and teacher of Alexander the Great. His fields of expertise include: physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music,logic, rhetoric, politics, ethics, biology, and zoology. He numbers among the greatest polymaths of all time.


---haven listed some of these universal geniuses

Who do you think is worthy of being in this list are you also worthy?

Never become so much of an expert that you stop
gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning
experience.” – Denis Waitley

not in this present age where it is almost impossible to master the whole of mathematics talk less of being a true polymath.

^ I thought a guy just got paid millions of $$ for being polymath recently, no?

Nice one op there though @op.

Where is Mohammed ibn-Musa al-Khwarizmi (Algorithm)?

Where is Algaber (Algebra)?

alienvirus:
Where is Mohammed ibn-Musa al-Khwarizmi (Algorithm)?

Where is Algaber (Algebra)?

yeah..the list goes on and on from,,pythagoras to lebnitz,,from Abu Rayhan al-Biruni to nasir al din al tusi..and on and on...just wanted to keep the list as short as possible

So I pick ibn haytham and avicenna...the men you listed above are also equally worthy of being in the list

Empiree:
^ I thought a guy just got paid millions of $$ for being polymath recently, no?

Nice one op there though @op.

that may be dr robert langer but I really feel henri poincare was the last true polymath--dont really know sha

Thanks sir

John von Neumann

tartar9:
not in this present age where it is almost impossible to master the whole of mathematics talk less of being a true polymath.

Lol. True.

Ahhhhh.................. You have to understand Op, those days, the branches of science were still concepts, Physics has not yet branched out yet, Chemistry was not so crazy and Maths (In a dark tone) was not yet a bastradly stubborn subject.

SirWere:
Ahhhhh.................. You have to understand Op, those days, the branches of science were still concepts, Physics has not yet branched out yet, Chemistry was not so crazy and Maths (In a dark tone) was not yet a bastradly stubborn subject.

lol...but the were pioneers(they underwent the rigors of discovery) in these fields and our own job is just to know them or maybe make one or two additions

I think their own work is more difficult ...the difference between us and they is they made maximum use of tym

You're right anyways