>John von Neumann >He made major contributions to a number of fields, including mathematics (foundations of mathematics, functional analysis, ergodic theory, geometry, topology, and numerical analysis), physics (quantum mechanics, hydrodynamics, and quantum statistical mechanics), economics (game theory), computing (Von Neumann architecture, linear programming, self-replicating machines, stochastic computing), and statistics.
Seems like specialization is the name of the game. These days you can be a theoretical physicists but have no understanding in basic electronics and how to solder a wire, or vice versa you can be an electrical engineer but doesn't know how electron propagates through the wire nor numerically solve an ordinary differential equations
it was over even in his time, he was an aberration. most of us including me are too brainlet to be able to be polymaths in this day in age. there is just too much to know in any given topic let alone field let alone subject.
Luis Jones
Socrates and Plato was also polymaths, but they're both wrong on almost everything related to natural sciences
Easton Gutierrez
Only if you're a brainlet. Even an iq in the low 180s should suffice for a broad and deep understanding of the world.
Isaac Taylor
t. brainlet
Aiden Baker
Name one decent modern polymath after John von Neumann. Even people like Richard Feynman had a horse blinders on and thrive just in one aspect of physics, rather than being a contributor in wide variety of fields.
Jaxson King
He was by far the brightest mind of his time
Josiah Kelly
that's not being a polymath. those are all related, einstein.
Luis Davis
I was joking, dumbass. Polymaths are incredibly rare as time goes on simply because the exponential increase in information about each specific field. In the 17th century there were many polymaths because we knew little enough that a man could acquaint himself with the basics of every field in a rather short time. Gettig proficient (aka good ebough to do research) at every branch of mathematics and physics would probably take multiple lifetimes now for the vast majority of people.
