Table of Contents

1: Defining genius2: Not running in the family3: The schooling of genius4: Intelligence versus genius5: Genius and madness6: Chameleon personalities7: Art versus sciences8: Eureka experiences9: Perspiration and inspiration10: Genius and us

About the Author

Andrew Robinson is the author of some twenty books covering both the arts and the sciences, which have been acclaimed by both national newspapers and specialist journals. They include Sudden Genius? The Gradual Path to Creative Breakthroughs, a biographical study of genius, and five biographies of exceptionally creative individuals in a wide range of fields: the physicist Albert Einstein (A Hundred Years of Relativity, 2005), the film director
Satyajit Ray (The Inner Eye, 1989), the writer Rabindranath Tagore (The Myriad-Minded Man, 1995), the archaeological decipherer Michael Ventris (The Man Who Deciphered Linear B, 2002), and the polymath Thomas Young (The
Last Man Who Knew Everything, 2006).