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Polymath Books
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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.13 — 79,360 ratings — published 2019
The Polymath: A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as polymath)
avg rating 3.27 — 367 ratings — published
The Polymath: Unlocking the Power of Human Versatility (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as polymath)
avg rating 3.87 — 405 ratings — published 2019
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,514 ratings — published 1979
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,240 ratings — published 2021
Mastery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.26 — 48,882 ratings — published 2012
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.00 — 60,174 ratings — published -350
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.18 — 128,602 ratings — published 2017
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.22 — 422,270 ratings — published 2003
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.08 — 13,039 ratings — published 2014
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.28 — 347,686 ratings — published 180
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as polymath)
avg rating 3.97 — 118,418 ratings — published 2002
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.12 — 39,775 ratings — published 2011
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,358,679 ratings — published 2011
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.39 — 385,711 ratings — published 1880
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.05 — 150,201 ratings — published 2003
The Italian Renaissance (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as polymath)
avg rating 3.71 — 333 ratings — published 1972
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.14 — 115,339 ratings — published 2020
Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as polymath)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,740 ratings — published 2018
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.37 — 226,061 ratings — published 2017
Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as polymath)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,225 ratings — published 2017
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as polymath)
avg rating 3.85 — 20,965 ratings — published 2014
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration: A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,280 ratings — published 1939
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.04 — 457,100 ratings — published 1997
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.24 — 793,361 ratings — published 1966
Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.09 — 9,947 ratings — published 1991
The Dental Diet: The Surprising Link between Your Teeth, Real Food, and Life-Changing Natural Health (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.17 — 895 ratings — published 2018
Biohacker’s Handbook Upgrade yourself and unleash your inner potential (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 3.65 — 388 ratings — published
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.06 — 81,373 ratings — published 2015
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.05 — 43,142 ratings — published 2012
Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970 (Inside Technology)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.34 — 32 ratings — published 2005
Isaac Newton (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,586 ratings — published 2003
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.15 — 37,533 ratings — published 1998
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,831,991 ratings — published 1953
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.09 — 512,004 ratings — published 1968
The Shadow of the Torturer (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 3.84 — 35,401 ratings — published 1980
Snow Crash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.01 — 297,737 ratings — published 1992
Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,843 ratings — published 1979
About Face: Odyssey Of An American Warrior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.38 — 6,062 ratings — published 1989
Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 3.90 — 8,278 ratings — published 2001
The Anarchist Handbook (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,009 ratings — published
Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness (Tim Grover Winning Series)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.32 — 5,147 ratings — published 2021
Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 3.58 — 1,183 ratings — published
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.47 — 6,500 ratings — published 2021
The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,483 ratings — published 2021
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.34 — 15,091 ratings — published 2019
The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,054 ratings — published 2018
Don't Do Stuff You Hate (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.37 — 41 ratings — published
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.38 — 31,755 ratings — published 2017
The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polymath)
avg rating 4.37 — 51,891 ratings — published 2016
“Leibniz’s brilliant monadic system naturally gives rise to calculus (the main tool of mathematics and science). But it was not Leibniz who linked the energy of monads to waves – that was done later following the work of the French genius Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier on Fourier series and Fourier transforms. Nevertheless, Leibniz’s idea of energy originating from countless mathematical points and flowing across a plenum is indeed the first glimpse in the modern age of “field theory” that now underpins contemporary physics. Leibniz was centuries ahead of his time. Leibniz’s system is entirely mathematical. It brings mathematics to life. The infinite collection of monads constitutes an evolving cosmic organism, unfolding according to mathematical laws.”
― The Last Man Who Knew Everything
― The Last Man Who Knew Everything
“When or if I get my own Wikipedia page, I would like to be called or mentioned as Polymath.”
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