Death of the Polymath
How America killed the polymath - and why we need to get them back.
This week marks 122 years of the Nobel Prize, with this year’s winners being announced on Monday. Among them is John Hopfield, who won the prize for Physics along with Geoffrey Hinton but is in fact a physicist, chemist, and biologist, as well as the inventor of the Hopfield neural network.
Hopfield is a polymath: a person with exceptional aptitude for a…
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