Genius Is What Happens: Derrida and Kant on Genius, Rule-Following and the Event

Genius explained

The physician's art is the catalogue of an exhibition of over 100 images and other objects from the collections of four North Carolina medical schools. In a finely-judged Preface, structured around specific examples shown, Martin Kemp points out some of the historical issues involved in the study of medical imagery and artifacts, beginning with the problem of what "realism" means in the context...

Genius and nonlinear dynamics

Genius is defined as a person of outstanding mental skills. These skills result from genius’ brain structure and physiology that are determined by genetics. It seems that environment and education may only inhibit development of a genius. Based on a simple model of brain phase space we formulate two hypotheses about dynamics of mental processes in genius’ brain and the difference between genius...

The GENIUS Grid Portal

The architecture and the current implementation of the GENIUS (Grid Enabled web eNvironment for site Independent User job Submission) Grid portal, jointly developed by INFN and NICE srl within the context of INFN Grid and DataGrid projects, is presented and discussed. Particular care is devoted to the description of job creation and submission and the services for transparent access to user’s d...

Commentary on Brian Hall "Kant on Newton, Genius, and Scientific Discovery"

Family background and genius.

OBJECTIVE It is widely believed among professionals and laity that genius is born and not made. However, the early and still-influential statistical studies of Frances Galton on the inheritance of genius have neither been supported nor definitively refuted. This study empirically assesses the hereditary transmission hypothesis. METHODS We collected family background data on 50 Nobel Prize lau...