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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Replying to @Meaningness @DRMacIver
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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