A person of wide-ranging knowledge or learning, accomplished across multiple, often unrelated fields

From Greek polymathes, 'having learned much', from polys ('many') + manthanein ('to learn')

Polyhistor Renaissance man Savant
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"The flag was the work of a polymath: Pingali Venkayya was not solely a flag designer but also a linguist, geologist and agricultural researcher who had spent years studying the flags of the world."

Use in GS1 answers on personalities of the national movement to signal breadth of contribution beyond a single, popularly-remembered achievement, e.g., 'like Rabindranath Tagore, Venkayya was a polymath whose civic contribution is often reduced to one symbol.'

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