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  2. Autodidacticism - Wikipedia

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    Tadao Ando is a famous autodidact architect of the twenty-first century. Many successful and influential architects, such as Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Violet-Le-Duc, Tadao Ando were self-taught. There are very few countries allowing autodidacticism in architecture today.

  3. List of autodidacts - Wikipedia

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    "He was an autodidact who could play almost any instrument, but he couldn't read music. He was a classically trained pianist who also created some of the most distinctive guitar riffs in rock history." [18] Claudio Arrau, 20th-century virtuoso pianist. He was highly regarded as an intellectual despite his lack of formal education outside his ...

  4. Talk:List of autodidacts - Wikipedia

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    To uphold the "KISS Principle" let's just define an autodidact as someone who does not have a Bachelors, Masters, or Doctoral degree, but has an equivalent Autodidactic Education. Ideaguy3d 23:44, 7 September 2022 (UTC) There were several people who are difficult to classify, such as James Watt, whose father was a math teacher.

  5. Pantomath - Wikipedia

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    Pantomath is typically used to convey the sense that a great individual has achieved a pinnacle of learning, that an "automath" has taken autodidacticism to an endpoint. As an example, the obscure and rare term seems to have been applied to those with an astonishingly wide knowledge and interests by these two authors from different eras: Jonathan Miller has been called a pantomath, [2] as has ...

  6. Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran - Wikipedia

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    In this way, he was self-taught as a scientist. As such, de Boisbaudran is an example of an autodidact. [9] With the support of his family, he assembled a modest chemical laboratory on the second floor of their home on the Rue de Lusignan. In this laboratory, he repeated the experiments that he had studied in books.

  7. List of Greek and Latin roots in English/D - Wikipedia

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    Root Meaning in English Origin language Etymology (root origin) English examples da-, dida-[1] (ΔΑ)learn: Greek: δάω: autodidact, Didache, didact, didactic, didacticism: dacry-[2]

  8. Martin Eden - Wikipedia

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    Martin Eden is a 1909 novel by American author Jack London about a young proletarian autodidact struggling to become a writer. It was first serialized in The Pacific Monthly magazine from September 1908 to September 1909 and then published in book form by Macmillan in September 1909.

  9. Mikhail Bakhtin - Wikipedia

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    Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (/ b ʌ x ˈ t iː n / bukh-TEEN; Russian: Михаи́л Миха́йлович Бахти́н, IPA: [mʲɪxɐˈil mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪdʑ bɐxˈtʲin]; 16 November [O.S. 4 November] 1895 – 7 March [2] 1975) was a Russian philosopher and literary critic who worked on the philosophy of language, ethics, and literary theory.