Citations:monomath

English citations of monomath

Noun: "a person with an extensive knowledge of a single subject or field, but little knowledge of others"

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1960 – National Review, Volume 8, page 52:
It is not a refuge for self-indulgent monomaths to channelize their aggressions within a community of colleagues and students.
1992 – Quadrant, Volume 36, page 7:
Sorry about that, Arthur. You got it half right, rather typical of the self-loathing monomaths I'm afraid.
2006 – Michael Bywater, "Master of all trades", New Statesmen, 13 November 2006:
We don't like polymaths any more. Perhaps it's because even being a monomath is too difficult now; even specialists specialise only in a small subset of their specialty, and learning is an either/or business.
2009 – Edward Carr, "The Last Days of the Polymath", Intelligent Life, Autumn 2009:
Posner first made his name as a monomath. “I had a very big intellectual commitment for many years to anti-trust law. I wrote a lot about that.” Eventually, though, the polymath rose to the surface and he put anti-trust behind him.
2010 – Vinnie Mirchandani, The New Polymath: Profiles in Compound-Technology Innovations, John Wiley & Sons (2010), →ISBN, page 16:
For the most part today, most of us seem to specialize: We are monomaths in a world of exploding knowledge. Of course, there are exceptions, such as Jobs and Joy. And, importantly, well-designed enterprises are taking individual monomaths, leveraging a wide array of technologies and becoming the new polymaths.
2011 – James Marshall Reilly, Shake the World: It's Not About Finding a Job, It's About Creating a Life, Portfoilo/Penguin (2011), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
We don't need to view our lives and careers from a singularly focused, monomath perspective, and we don't need to be a Leonardo da Vinci or a Rafe Furst in order to position ourselves in this manner.