It requires more motivation than most people usually feel -- and more time and effort that most people are prepared to devote to it. Which is especially odd, when you reflect that, with this particular form of wealth as with all others, you can't take it with you.
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Replying to @MathPrinceps @DRMacIver
OK, here’s the plan. We deploy elite special forces units to capture all the Fields Medalists and take them in black helicopters to a purpose-built underground fortress on Svalbard, and use secret CIA psy-op interrogation techniques to force them to reveal what they know
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Honestly, what impresses me most is how profoundly the attitudes of great masters vary from art to art. Itzhak Perlman, Emanuel Ax, Midori -- all have put a great deal of effort into transmitting their tacit knowledge. The number of great mathematicians who do likewise?
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Replying to @MathPrinceps @DRMacIver
Zero, I think. Rota and Thurston are partial exceptions. Any others?
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Oh, and Terry Tao.
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Polya, surely?
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Hugely overrated imo but ymmv
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I couldn't stand "How to Solve It". I was never sure on how much that was because I already knew what I was doing, but I couldn't really imagine it being helpful if I didn't already understand what it was saying.
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I've only skimmed it, due to encountering it after I'd already absorbed most of the contents :-) But anyway, he's a leading mathematician who put serious effort into teaching the heuristics he used.
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He is, but given how regularly he gets cited an example for what was ultimately a fairly mediocre book, I don't think that says very good things about the genre!
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Success entirely due to the title being something everyone wants and that is not otherwise available
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Failure to deliver is no obstacle if you have no competition
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