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University of Mary Washington Professor Emeritus of Physics Bulent Atalay will deliver a presentation Thursday, March 13, in Dodd Auditorium, as part of the William B. Crawley Great Lives Lecture Series. Atalay will discuss his most recent book, ‘Beyond Genius.’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bulent Atalay spent more than four decades teaching physics at the University of Mary Washington. On the side, he fed a passion for the arts that had possessed him from an early age.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a child growing up in Turkey and England, I drew and painted everything I could get ahold of,\u201d said Atalay, whose books of lithographs created in the 1970s can be found in the White House, Buckingham Palace and the Smithsonian. But he also discovered a penchant for numbers, equations and things mathematical, in his high school days and during his training in physics in college and graduate school.<\/p>\n

Audience members will learn more when he speaks this week as part of the William B. Crawley Great Lives Lecture Series<\/a>. Atalay\u2019s presentation \u2013 the Coldwell Banker Elite Lecture, focusing on his latest book, Beyond Genius \u2013 <\/em>is scheduled for George Washington Hall\u2019s Dodd Auditorium on Thursday, March 13, at 7:30 p.m. It\u2019s the latest installment of the series\u2019 22nd season, which continues for free most Tuesdays and Thursdays through April 3.<\/p>\n

\u201cGenius, like all human qualities, comes in degrees,\u201d Atalay said during a Zoom interview from his home office, adorned with blown-up covers of his first book, 2004\u2019s Math and the Mona Lisa<\/em>. That book examines the numbers, patterns and symmetries Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci used to create his own paintings. Published in 14 languages, the work preceded Atalay\u2019s Leonardo\u2019s Universe<\/em>, an illustration-filled, coffee table book published in 2009 by National Geographic, and co-authored with friend and former UMW graduate student Keith Wamsley \u201903.<\/p>\n

Beyond Genius: A Journey Through the Characteristics and Legacies of Transformative Minds<\/em> is Atalay\u2019s most ambitious book on the intersection of the arts and sciences. Published by Pegasus Books in November 2023, it, too, examines da Vinci but includes a handful of other great minds \u2013 Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Ludwig van Beethoven and William Shakespeare. \u201cEach, in entirely defining his respective field, is far more influential than \u2018the ordinary genius,\u2019 such as a Nobel Prize winner,\u201d Atalay said.<\/p>\n

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‘Beyond Genius: A Journey Through the Characteristics and Legacies of Transformative Minds’ by Bulent Atalay examines the qualities and traits shared by Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Ludwig van Beethoven and William Shakespeare.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While the prodigies\u2019 paths vary wildly, Beyond Genius <\/em>traces the internal and external conditions that applied to each one, along with personal characteristics and traits, to reveal commonalities. \u201cThey all leapt effortlessly from one monumental achievement to another,\u201d the author found. \u201cThey all operated largely on intuition, communed more readily with nature than others could, exhibited an aversion to authority and displayed their incredible talents by the time they were in their early teens.\u201d<\/p>\n

Atalay, borrowing from the ancient Roman philosopher and poet Seneca, writing: \u201cThey each also possessed \u2018a tincture of lunacy,\u2019 a necessary ingredient for genius.\u201d Biographer Walter Isaacson wrote a blurb for Beyond Genius<\/em>, calling it \u201cA triumph.\u201d Oxford University named it its \u201cAlumni Book of the Month.\u201d<\/p>\n

The author became thoroughly acquainted with da Vinci\u2019s artistic works \u2013 and his far less known scientific works \u2013 while writing his first two books. \u201cOnly a part-time artist, he created the Mona Lisa<\/em> and The Last <\/em>Supper<\/em>, the two most famous works in the history of art,\u201d Atalay said. \u201cBut the man described as \u2018the most relentlessly curious man in history,\u2019 had an unbelievable scientific insight few have known about.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his years as a professor of physics at Mary Washington (1966-2009) and adjunct professor of math at UVA (1971-2006), he frequently focused on the discoveries of Newton and Einstein. In writing his new book, he said, he had to delve much deeper into the backgrounds and works of artistic creators Shakespeare and Beethoven.<\/p>\n

Atalay\u2019s training in theoretical physics is distilled from his studies at Georgetown, Cal-Berkeley, Princeton and Oxford. \u201cBut UMW is ultimately home,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s where I taught generations of students and the single institution to which I feel the greatest sense of loyalty.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information about Atalay\u2019s lecture on Thursday, March 13, along with other remaining presentations, visit the <\/em>Great Lives lecture series webpage<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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