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The Great Mental Models Project is a labor of love to help equalize opportunity in the world by making a high-quality, multidisciplinary, interconnected education free and available to everyone. That’s a big ambition. To get there, we’re starting with five reference books that cover core mental models from major disciplines: Biology, Physics,

Les polymathes étaient spécialisés dans un domaine – ils détenaient donc beaucoup de brevets dans ce domaine –, mais ils n’avaient pas une spécialisation aussi pointue que les spécialistes. Ils étaient également éclectiques, encore plus que les généralistes, parce qu’ils avaient travaillé dans plusieurs domaines technologiques. Ils prenaient, très

English Victorian version of a Renaissance man, Francis Galton. Galton wore many hats. He was an anthropologist, tropical explorer (Southwest Africa), geographer, sociologist, geneticist, statistician, inventor, meteorologist, and was also considered the father of psychometry,

Intellectual polymaths are either scholars that excel in multiple unrelated disciplines (multidisciplinary), or thinkers who synthesise seemingly disparate areas of knowledge in order to make a serious contribution to one of more of them (interdisciplinary).