Author: Andrew Robinson

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2010-09-16

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 0199569959

Genius and breakthroughs appear to involve something magical. Andrew Robinson looks at what science does, and does not, know about exceptional creativity, and applied it to the stories of ten breakthroughs in the arts and sciences, including Curie's discovery of radium and Mozart's composing of The Marriage of Figaro.