Download or read book Sudden Genius? written by Andrew Robinson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genius and breakthroughs appear to involve something magical. Andrew Robinson looks at what science does, and does not, know about exceptional creativity, and applied it to the stories of ten breakthroughs in the arts and sciences, including Curie's discovery of radium and Mozart's composing of The Marriage of Figaro.