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Sudden genius? : the gradual path to creative breakthroughs /

"The highly admired scientist Linus Pauling, a double Nobel laureate in chemistry and peace, was once asked by a student. 'Dr Pauling, how do you have so many good ideas?' Pauling thought for a moment and replied: 'Well, David, I have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones.&#...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Robinson, Andrew, 1957-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
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  • 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 lover, and the poet
  • Ten breakthroughs in art and science. Leonardo da Vinci: The Last Supper
  • Christopher Wren: St Paul's Cathedral
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The marriage of Figaro
  • Jean-François Champollion: Decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs
  • Charles Darwin: Evolution by natural selection
  • Marie Curie: Discovery of radium
  • Albert Einstein: Special relativity
  • Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway
  • Henri Cartier-Bresson: The decisive moment
  • Satyajit Ray: Pather Panchali
  • Patterns of genius. Family matters
  • Professor of the little finger
  • Creative science versus artistic creation
  • Is there a creative personality?
  • Reputation, fame, and genius
  • The 'ten-year rule'
  • Genius and us.