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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Grothendieck? Turing?
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Kaczynski? 😢
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grothendieck is the main exception i had in mind. i mentally classify turing as a computer scientist and i feel a bit weird about classifying kaczynski as a mathematician but i suppose you’re technically right 😛
This was first proved by T. J. Kaczynski [1]
[1] better known for other works
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Seems more like Kaczynski did something interesting, than that interesting things happened to him.
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