"If any one person in the previous century personified the word polymath, it was von Neumann."
— John von Neumann

January 1, 1970

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PolymathsAcademics from the United StatesMathematicians from the United StatesAcademics from HungaryMathematicians from Hungary
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Sources

Tom Siegfried, in A Beautiful Math: John Nash, Game Theory, and the Modern Quest for a Code of Nature (2006), p. 28