Hail! Ave! Salut! Gruss Gott. etc.

[Cyril]

Hi Polymath! It reminds me the homonymous book by Brunner I read last month.

[polymath]

Hi Cyril! Sadly I'm only a wannabe polymath. Along the same lines, one of of my other sigs elsewhere is Renaissance Manc. That's probably nearer the mark.
Is the Brunner book any good?

[Cyril]

Originally Posted by polymath

Is the Brunner book any good?

Yes, quite good. Not one of his best but pleasant to read with some good ideas that make this story of a wreck on an hostile planet something original despite a very classical thematic. It's just old-fashioned concerning the technologies described and for the style (but on this point, perhaps it's the french translation I read that was dated, not the Brunner's style, I can't know).

[chrispenycate]

I would have expected a polimath to be good a a wide range of mathematical specialities (I was quite good at multidimensional topology and number theory)
Perhaps I'm a monomath- or considering it's audio I'm specialised in, a stereomath.
Oh if you haven't already gathered, welcome here.

[polymath]

Originally Posted by chrispenycate

I would have expected a polimath to be good a a wide range of mathematical specialities (I was quite good at multidimensional topology and number theory)
Perhaps I'm a monomath- or considering it's audio I'm specialised in, a stereomath.
Oh if you haven't already gathered, welcome here.

First off, I can't do smilies yet, so I'll just say 'smilie' wherever I need to - it's engagingly daft as well...
Thanks for the welcome...(smilie)
...And I see you're living up to your pedantissimo strapline...(smilie)
...you're right of course, but when it came down to choosing A-levels (which loosely defines what you go on to study at university) I wanted to do Maths, further Maths, and Physics. Bizarrely, and for no real reason I can discern, my school would not allow me because I was no good whatsoever at Chemistry. I never understood that reasoning. I didn't want to do Chemistry. So I studied English Lit, Latin, French and General Studies instead.
Oh well, Science's loss was Literature's gain. Actually, Literature didn't really gain, so it wasn't, was it? Come to think of it, it wasn't Science's loss either. Damn. (smilie)