Bent double under their loads, the savants spend hours unpacking and repacking their sacks whenever they meet each other. |
It involved not only building a library, but inviting savants from all over the Greek world to live in Alexandria. |
Mersenne both kept in touch with savants all over Europe, and seems to have had a clear vision himself of what a new philosophy must consist in. |
Bent over their computers, thirty savants were absorbed in equations of the ninety-fifth degree. |
So when we look at genius or child prodigies or musical geniuses or idiot savants, these are clues to the mystery of that infinitely creative mind that we can tap into. |
Maier is among an estimated 50 people in the world recognized as prodigious savants whose abilities are as remarkable as their limitations. |