The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places From Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley (63 page)

Calcutta and,
188
,
190
,
192
,
194

China and,
67
,
69
,
71
,
74
–75,
82
,
289

Greece and,
35
,
44
–45,
50
,
58
,
61
,
168
,
325

Hangzhou and,
66
,
75
,
95
,
105
,
219
,
325

muses and,
50
–51

Scotland and,
142
,
155
,
158

Shen and,
79
–80

Stallings and,
32
,
36

Su and,
74
–77,
89
,
156

Tagore and,
194
,
199
–200,
205

Poker Club,
173
–74

Polgar, Alfred,
254
–55

politics,
1
,
15
,
54
,
67
,
73
,
124
–25,
138
,
178
,
188
,
212
–13,
220
,
239
,
272
,
318

China and,
80
,
83
,
89
,
94

Greece and,
19
,
30
,
37
,
45

Scotland and,
143
–44,
155
,
171
,
176

Su and,
74
,
77

Vienna and,
279
,
283
–84

Polo, Marco,
71
–73,
87
,
95
–96

Power of Constraints,
90
,
111
,
231
,
311
,
325

Prigogine, Ilya,
197

printing,
67
,
70
,
74
,
133
,
182

problem finding,
110
–11

psychoanalysis,
144
,
262
,
266
,
269
,
275

psychology,
17
,
22
,
25
–26,
30
,
34
,
39
,
42
,
52
–53,
55
,
76
,
82
,
84
,
89
–90,
94
,
153
,
161
,
170
,
179
,
198
,
200
,
225
,
257
,
269
–71,
291
,
323

creativity and,
57
–58,
110
,
187
,
211
,
223
–24,
230
,
232
,
236

education and,
126
–27

Freud and,
241
,
260
,
266
–67,
269
,
282

and geniuses as only children,
111
–12

immigration and,
264
–65

Simonton and,
6
–8

and sources of genius,
5
,
8

Vienna and,
218
,
284

Queneau, Raymond,
90

Rabinovici, Doron,
277
–78

Ramanujan, Srinivasa,
206

Ray, Satyajit,
187
,
214

Reed, Lou,
107

rejection,
60
–61,
80
,
163
,
265
–66

Renaissance,
6
,
67
,
77
,
86
,
94
,
101
–5,
111
–14,
181
,
252
,
289
,
323

art and,
97
–98,
102
–4,
107
,
112
–13,
116
–17,
119
–22,
134
–35,
138
,
314

Bengal,
188
–90,
194
–95,
204
,
207
,
212
–13

books and,
132
–33,
316

Florence and,
9
,
20
,
97
–99,
102
–3,
107
,
118
,
120
,
122
–26,
128
–30,
135
–38,
190
,
194
,
220
,
288
,
314
,
324

Martinez and,
101
,
116
,
121
,
136
–38

Verrocchio and,
107
,
113
–14

Renton, Alex,
156
–59

Repcheck, Jack,
161

“Representation of Chaos, The” (Haydn),
245

Requiem
(Mozart),
113
,
166
,
222

revenge effects,
128

Richards, Keith,
193

Rig Veda,
206

risk,
14
,
30
,
92
,
149
,
237
,
326

Barker and,
134
–35

Florence and,
102
–3,
119
–20,
122
–23,
138
,
301

Ritter, Simone,
264

ritual humiliation,
171

Roberge, Gaston,
214
–15

Roman Empire,
2
,
98
,
105
–6,
145
,
152
,
219
,
240
,
244
–45,
267
–68

Rome,
100
,
127
–28,
131
,
133

Rothenberg, Albert,
152
,
165

Rowling, J. K.,
168
,
175

Royal Infirmary,
147
,
150

Sacks, Oliver,
199

Sacre du printemps, Le
(Stravinsky),
18

Saffo, Paul,
292
,
314
,
318

St. Giles,
181

Saint John’s,
189

Saint Peter’s Basilica,
138

Salisbury Crags,
161

Salten, Felix,
272
–73

San Francisco, Calif.,
135
,
290
–91,
294

San Francisco sourdough,
321
–22

Santa Maria del Fiore,
124
–25,
127
–28,
291

Santo Spirito,
122
–3

Sapir, Edward,
53

Sawyer, Keith,
34
,
257
,
304
,
323

schema violations,
271
–72,
281
,
300
,
306
,
325
–26