That's interesting. I didn't think that first-rate mathematicians controlled the direction of math education.
Some may abuse this freedom, but great artists use it to devise constraints for themselves. They have no wish to play tennis without a net.
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The key point is that no one -- certainly no education bureaucrat -- knows better than a great artist how to devise fruitful constraints.
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Mathematics and society gain the most when great mathematicians pursue their art as they see fit. For, strangely, beautiful math is useful.
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