polymath definition
A polymath is a person whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areasâsuch a person is known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific problems. In Western Europe, the first work to use polymathy in its title was published by Johann von Wower, a Hamburg philosopher. Wower defined polymathy as knowledge of various matters, drawn from all kinds of studies ranging freely through all the fields of the disciplines, as far as the human mind, with unwearied ...