TY - BOOK AU - Robinson,Andrew TI - Sudden genius?: the gradual path to creative breakthroughs SN - 0199569959 AV - BF408 .R5154 2010 U1 - 153.980922 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Leonardo, KW - Wren, Christopher, KW - Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, KW - Champollion, Jean-François, KW - Darwin, Charles, KW - Curie, Marie, KW - Einstein, Albert, KW - Woolf, Virginia, KW - Cartier-Bresson, Henri, KW - Ray, Satyajit, KW - Inspiration KW - Gifted persons N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-358) and index; 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 ER -