As far as I can tell, the whole job of mathematics professors is to obfuscate the fact that this is a thing.
@DRMacIver is a computer scientist and hasn’t been forced to take the sacred vows of silence. Yet. They won’t let him go much furtherhttps://twitter.com/DRMacIver/status/1189827287748927488 …
Most mathematics professors are, of course, selfish. They prefer to pursue their own research, and are incentivized to do so. And if the only audience to whom they are required to address themselves consists of their own colleagues, then of course communication skills atrophy.
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But it is truly extraordinary how far the atrophy can go. For decades, Atle Selberg's office at the IAS was directly across the hall from Robert Langlands'. Hard to imagine two men with more to talk about -- yet in all that time, they seem to have had exactly one conversation.
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