Author: D. B. C. PierrePublisher:
ISBN: 9780956216014
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
Sudden Genius?
Author: Andrew RobinsonPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191624926
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The highly admired scientist Linus Pauling, a double Nobel laureate in chemistry and peace, was once asked by a student. 'Dr Pauling, how do you have so many good ideas?' Pauling thought for a moment and replied: 'Well, David, I have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones.' Where do ideas come from? Why do some people have many more of them than others? How do you distinguish the good ideas from the bad? Most intriguing of all, perhaps, why do the best ideas sometimes strike in a flash of 'sudden genius'? These questions are the subject of this book. Andrew Robinson explores the exceptional creativity in both scientists and artists by following the trail that led ten individuals from childhood to the achievement of a famous creative breakthrough as an adult, in archaeology, architecture, art, biology, chemistry, cinema, music, literature, photography, and physics. Broken into three parts, the book begins with the scientific study of creativity, covering talent, genius, intelligence, memory, dreams, the unconscious, savant syndrome, synaesthesia, and mental illness. The second part tells the stories of five breakthroughs by scientists and five by artists, ranging from Curie's discovery of radium and Einstein's theory of special relativity to Mozart's composing of The Marriage of Figaro and Virginia Woolf's writing of Mrs Dalloway. Robinson concludes by considering what highly creative people who achieve breakthroughs have in common; whether breakthroughs in science and art follow patterns; and whether they always involve imaginative leaps and even 'genius'.
Albany Medical Annals
Author: The International
Author: Chemicals in Foods and Cosmetics
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee to Investigate the Use of Chemicals in Food ProductsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cosmetics
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
The Osteopathic Physician
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Osteopathic medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
California State Journal of Medicine
Author: Holden's Dollar Magazine
Author: Prizing Debate
Author: Anna AuguscikPublisher: transcript Verlag
ISBN: 3839438535
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
This book offers a study of the literary marketplace in the early 2000s. Focusing on the Man Booker Prize and its impact on a novel's media attention, Anna Auguscik analyses the mechanisms by which the Prize both recognises books that trigger debates and itself becomes the object of such debates. Based on case studies of six novels (by Aravind Adiga, Margaret Atwood, Sebastian Barry, Mark Haddon, DBC Pierre, Zadie Smith) and their attention profiles, this work describes the Booker as a 'problem-driven attention-generating mechanism', the influence of which can only be understood in relation to other participants in literary interaction.
Journal of the American Medical Association
Author: American Medical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
Author: