text Sudden genius? : the gradual path to creative breakthroughs
- Summary
- The extraordinarily inventive Linus Pauling, twice winner of the Nobel Prize, was asked how he came to have so many good ideas. Pauling replied: "Well, I have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones." Where do ideas come from? And why do the be... Read more
- Contents
- Meetings with remarkable creators -- The science and art of breakthoughs. Ingredients of creativity -- Genius and talent: reality or myth? -- Intelligence is not enough -- Strangers to ourselves -- Blue remembered Wednesdays -- The lunatic, the lo... Read more
- Format
- text
- Description
- xxxv, 371 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press 2010
Library | Location | Status |
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TADL-WOOD | 153.35 ROB in Adult Non-fiction | Available |
Library | Location | Status |
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TADL-WOOD | 153.35 ROB in Adult Non-fiction | Available |
Creative ability
Inspiration
Gifted persons
da Vinci Leonardo 1452-1519
Sir Wren, Christopher 1632-1723
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 1756-1791
Champollion, Jean-François 1790-1832
Darwin, Charles 1809-1882
Curie, Marie 1867-1934
Einstein, Albert 1879-1955
Woolf, Virginia 1882-1941
Cartier-Bresson, Henri 1908-2004
Ray, Satyajit 1921-1992