Polymath
Author: John Brunner
 
When a ship filled with refugees from a cosmic catastrophe crash-landed on an unmapped world, their outlook was precarious. Their ship was lost, salvage had been minor, and everything came to depend on one bright young man accidentally among them.
He was a trainee planet-builder - a polymath. It would have been his job to foress all the problems necessary to set up a safe home for humanity. But the problem was that he was a mere student - and that he had been studying the wrong planet.
 
DAW BOOKS 1974 EDITION
ISBN: 0879977663