one more interesting definition of the polymath

The late president of Illinois Wesleyan University, Minor Myers, Jr., who had been working on a book on polymaths before his death, wrote that the polymath is “someone who achieves or approaches expertise or creativity in two or more separate fields.” Myers believed that a polymath is a genuinely interdisciplinary person who “lives in two or more boxes.”

With this, I think that we've the end of the best potential definitions of polymathy.

I will next offer my own definition of the modern polymath, and then start comparing it to the Renaissance Man.

Then the fun part begins. We can start looking at real polymaths.