{"product_id":"153854935_product","title":"Bulent Atalay - Beyond Genius : A Journey Through the Characteristics","description":"New Store Stock\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout this Item\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe item is a book Hardback\u003cbr\u003eThe Author Name is Bulent Atalay\u003cbr\u003eThe Title is Beyond Genius : A Journey Through the Characteristics and Legacies of Transformative Minds\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCondition New\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOther Comments\u003cbr\u003eNew Store Stock\u003cbr\u003eCategory - Science\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProduct Description -\u003cbr\u003eAn in-depth and unified exploration of genius in the arts and sciences through the life and works of five seminal intellectual and cultural figures: Leonardo da Vinci, William Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, Ludwig von Beethoven, and Albert Einstein.   Who among us hasn't read Hamlet,  listened to the Fifth Symphony, gazed at the Mona Lisa, or marveled at the three laws of physics and the Theory of Relativity and been struck with the same simple question: how on Earth did they do it? Where did these masters draw inspiration to produce some of the most stunning achievements in human history? Were their brains wired differently than ours? Did they have special traits or unique experiences that set them on the path to greatness? Genius is a broad and elusive concept, one that is divisive and hard to definea€”and gravely misunderstood. There are a€œordinarya€ geniuses who achieve remarkable feats of brilliance, as well as a€œmagiciansa€ (a term James Gleick invoked to describe Richard Feynman) who make an outsize impact on their given field.\r\n\r\n But highest among them are transformative geniuses, those rare individuals who redefine their fields or open up new universes of thought altogether.    These are the masters whose genius Bulent Atalay decodes in his engrossing, enlightening, and revelatory book. No, Atalay doesna€t have a road map for how we might become the next Einstein or Leonardo, but his revolutionary study of genius gives us a stunning new lens through which to view humanitya€s most prolific thinkers and creators and perhaps pick up some inspiration along the way.\r\n\r\n     At first, it seems that transformative geniuses dona€t follow any sort of topography. Their prodigious output looks effortless, they leap from summit to summit, and they probably couldna€t explain exactly how they went about solving their problems. They might not even recognize themselves in the ways we talk about them today.\r\n\r\n Atalay argues that these heroes fit more of a mold than we might think. As evidence, he rigorously dissects the lives, traits, habits, and thought patterns of five exemplarsa€”Leonardo, Shakespeare, Newton, Beethoven, and Einsteina€” to map the path of the transformative genius.    How did Beethoven, who could not perform basic multiplication, innately encode the Fibonacci Sequence in his symphonies? Is it possible that we understate Shakespearea€s poetic influence? How did Leonardo become equally prolific in both the arts and the sciences? How did Newton formulate the universal laws of physics, the basis of so many other sciences? And what prompted TIME Magazine to declare Einstein, a man whose very name is synonymous with genius, the a€œIndividual of the 20th Centurya€? With great clarity and attention to detail, Atalay expertly traces how these five exemplars ascended to immortality and what their lives and legacies reveal about how transformative geniuses are made\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen possible we will add details of the items we are selling to help buyers know what is included in the item for sale. The details are provided automatically from our central master database and can sometimes be wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBooks are released in many editions and variations, such as standard edition, re-issue, not for sale, promotional, special edition, limited edition, and many other editions and versions.  The Book you receive could be any of these editions or variations. 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