Exempel på savant

• The distinction between the ingenieur savant and his more theoretically oriented mathematical colleagues is the subject of the next section.

• Others worked as court savants, sometimes without having a position in the civil service.

• Religious and national tolerance among savants was not unrestricted.

• The ingenieur savant was both motivated to his research by the concerns of engineering and technology, and also often tailored it to suit such needs.

• The four were indeed grands savants, comparing favorably with any four from any other country in 1900.

• He, like his contemporaries, expected far more from the savant.

• The eighteenth century category of savant differed from the twentieth century category of "scientist" in being broader, more fluid, and not professional.

• Learning the impossible : the acquisition of possible and impossible languages by a polyglot savant.

• Next are the 'faux savants', all wearing gold spectacles; claiming science to be infallible, they chant contemporary scientific words with obvious anachronism.

• But the foreign savants were to show no such hostility.

• However, none of our ingenieurs savants produced any new results or methods of lasting importance to numerical analysis.

• These individuals may have hoped to create an image of themselves as savants as well as, or perhaps rather than, showmen.

• On the other hand, the prototype of the truth seeker as a man of letters or savant is still with us.

• Generally, savants are very good at some specific cognitive domains but their mastery of language is poor.

• Savant-like skills exposed in normal people by suppressing the left fronto-temporal lobe.