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Simon was a polymath: PhD in political science, Nobel Prize-winner in economics, Turing award winner, leading scholar in AI, business management (iirc), etc. W
by wolverine876 3y ago
Simon was a polymath: PhD in political science, Nobel Prize-winner in economics, Turing award winner, leading scholar in AI, business management (iirc), etc.
Who are today's Herbert Simons? I don't mean people who match his fields of study exactly, but polymaths who are leading scholars across different fields.
- gumby 3y agoAnother great was Jay W. Forrester, inventor of core memory, urban planning professor, and applied mathematician, among other things. Yeah, where are the true polymaths of today? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Wright_Forrester https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Wright_Forrester
- bordercases 3y agoIn the Santa Fe complexity institute.
- dreamcompiler 3y agoI think Edward Fredkin was in that category. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Fredkin https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Fredkin