Polymaths excel in multiple fields. But what makes a polymath – and can their cross-discipline expertise help tackle some of society’s most pressing challenges?

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Modern polymaths go against the grain of this popular advice, building atypical combinations of skills and knowledge across fields and then integrating them to create breakthrough ideas and even ...

The holistic wisdom of ancient Arab polymaths can inspire innovative solutions to today’s most complex global challenges.

In the modern world, where a very common job might require someone to be a social-media expert, public speaker, writer and data analyst, the polymath wins and the deep subject-matter expert is ...

Over the centuries, polymaths — or people knowledgeable in many disciplines — have brought forth a wide range of inventions and discoveries. Now polymaths may be setting the course of ...

“Liberal arts students around the world have the potential to become a new generation of paradigm-shifting modern polymaths,” he says, “in the way that Averroes, Maimonides and Aquinas shifted the ...