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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Okay. Do you think it's different for physics or other fields with some of the smartest people?
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Physics appears to be a bit less cohesive to me than math, and it is built more around paradigms, with a few top level thinkers carving out the work of their adherents.
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