Beyond Genius

An in-depth and unified exploration of genius in the arts and sciences through the life and works of five seminal intellectual and cultural figures: Leonardo da Vinci, William Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, Ludwig von Beethoven, and Albert Einstein.

Bulent Atalay, PhD, was a professor of physics at the University of Mary Washington and the University of Virginia, and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, is also an accomplished artist whose lithographs have been published in Lands of Washington and Oxford and the English Countryside. He is the author of Math and the Mona Lisa and Leonardo's Universe and lives in Virginia.