What is the person who is both polymath and polyglot? – quora
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They are very distinct ideas. A polyglot speaks numerous languages. A polymath is skilled or experienced in many different fields, especially science. Obviously under some definitions any polyglot is really a polymath, because each language could be described as a field, particularly if one publishes or does other research about this. It’s difficult to say …