I loathe mathematics competitions. They don’t have competitions in comparative literature, do they? There must be plenty of fields that do not have them. Surely we can come up with better ways to make mathematics exciting for young people.https://twitter.com/ilaba/status/1189028060076503040 …
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There was little about me that identified the kind of bright student who wins at prestigious competitions or assimilates, almost by sleight of hand, the most forbidding subjects. ~ Alexander Grothendieck
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I was never interested in artificial puzzles. ~ Goro Shimura I was never fascinated by puzzles or intellectual games. ~ Robert Phelan Langlands
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Stephen Schanuel once bragged to me that he was most proud of the fact that he never got higher than a 0 on the Putnam Exam.
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