What if the tremendous success and conceptual cohesion of the unified code base of mathematics is largely the result of bad math teachers making the field unattractive to all but the smartest and most tenacious students?
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But why would the smartest autodidacts go for maths, specifically?
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It would be only the smartest autodidacts that were able to discover and like math for what it is (an aesthetic discipline), without being distracted by promises of status and income.
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