you ever read a mathematician’s biography and get jealous of all the nonmathematical parts like the part where they acquired the patronage of catherine the great or the part where they had to be exiled from paris for unstated political reasons
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nothing interesting has happened to a mathematician since WWII. this is only a slight exaggeration
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if you haven’t been exiled from paris for unstated political reasons you’re not taking enough risks i guess
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The amount of eccentricity we tolerate in the sucesfull has definitely gone down.
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Not sure that's true. There's more awareness so the bell curve has a wider base maybe. In business we have Musk etc, and plenty of eccentric startup founders. Even in politics we have Trump and Bernie. In science we have... Penrose?
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I argued with my wife once.
Tried to convince her that infinity was not a number.
I was exiled to the sofa.