Robinson, Andrew,  1957- <br/><br/>
Sudden genius? :  the gradual path to creative breakthroughs / 
 Gradual path to creative breakthroughs 
Andrew Robinson. 
 - xxxv, 371 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :  illustrations, portraits ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-358) and index. 
<br/><br/>Meetings with remarkable creators -- The science and art of breakthoughs. Ingredients of creativity -- Genius and talent: reality or myth? -- Intelligence is not enough -- Strangers to ourselves -- Blue remembered Wednesdays -- The lunatic, the lover, and the poet -- Ten breakthroughs in art and science. Leonardo da Vinci: The Last Supper -- Christopher Wren: St Paul's Cathedral -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The marriage of Figaro -- Jean-François Champollion: Decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs -- Charles Darwin: Evolution by natural selection -- Marie Curie: Discovery of radium -- Albert Einstein: Special relativity -- Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway -- Henri Cartier-Bresson: The decisive moment -- Satyajit Ray: Pather Panchali -- Patterns of genius. Family matters -- Professor of the little finger -- Creative science versus artistic creation -- Is there a creative personality? -- Reputation, fame, and genius -- The 'ten-year rule' -- Genius and us. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0199569959 9780199569953 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010930304 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Leonardo, da Vinci,  1452-1519 <br/>Wren, Christopher, Sir,  1632-1723 <br/>Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791 <br/>Champollion, Jean-François, 1790-1832 <br/>Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 <br/>Curie, Marie, 1867-1934 <br/>Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955. <br/>Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 <br/>Cartier-Bresson, Henri, 1908-2004 <br/>Ray, Satyajit, 1921-1992 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Inspiration<br/>Gifted persons
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BF408  / .R5154 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>153.980922