There was a time when technology flowed from east to west; this was the golden age of the ancient Arab world, when knowledge flourished and scholars were not confined by the boundaries of single ...

CIOs should look to the ancient Greek polymaths -- also known as Renaissance men or jacks of all trades -- for inspiration, writes Vinnie Mirchandani in his intriguing, new book. Too bad so few of ...

CIOs should look to the ancient Greek polymaths — also known as Renaissance men or jacks of all trades — for inspiration, writes Vinnie Mirchandani in his intriguing, new book. Too bad so few of these ...

The figure of the polymath, the person whose knowledge touches many subjects, goes back at least as far as the Greek philosopher Heraclitus—and so does the skepticism inspired by these “monsters of ...