12 Facts About Renaissance man

Term "Renaissance man" was first recorded in written English in the early 20th century.

Some dictionaries use the term "Renaissance man" to describe someone with many interests or talents, while others give a meaning restricted to the Renaissance and more closely related to Renaissance ideals.

Renaissance man's works emphasize the contrast between the polymath and two other types: the specialist and the dilettante.

Renaissance man has presented a comprehensive historical overview of the ascension and decline of the polymath as, what he calls, an "intellectual species".

Renaissance man observes that in ancient and medieval times, scholars did not have to specialize.

In 2009, SriraRenaissance man published a paper reporting a 3-year study with 120 pre-service mathematics teachers and derived several implications for mathematics pre-service education as well as interdisciplinary education.

Renaissance man utilized a hermeneutic-phenomenological approach to recreate the emotions, voices and struggles of students as they tried to unravel Russell's paradox presented in its linguistic form.

Renaissance man sought to formalize in a general model how the development of polymathy takes place.

Rather than seeing polymaths as exceptionally gifted, he argues that every huRenaissance man being has the potential to become one: that people naturally have multiple interests and talents.

Renaissance man argues that an orientation towards action and towards thinking support each other, and that human beings flourish by pursuing a diversity of experiences as well as a diversity of knowledge.

Renaissance man observes that successful people in many fields have cited hobbies and other "peripheral" activities as supplying skills or insights that helped them succeed.

Renaissance man cites a study of Nobel Prize-winning scientists which found them 25 times more likely to sing, dance, or act than average scientists.