It is difficult to find creative mathematicians after the age of forty, because their creativity is athletic in nature—it needs vigor and breath. For a poet, as the history of literature shows us, it's different: even broken and fucked up neurons can create masterpieces
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Of course, there are exceptions such as Grigori Perelman and Terence Tao, who started as a child prodigy but does not stop solving conjectures
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