Every once in a while I look at a Putnam exam and wonder a) how you solve any of the problems and b) why anyone would care about any of them
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@Meaningness It's very hard stuff, but it's a very artificial kind of hard. My advisor said I had no sense of aesthetics tho, so who knows?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness Well, Feynman and Milnor did win it. The idea of kids *studying* for it though...ugh1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness There's plenty of good work going on. Problem is that it's harder and harder to reach frontiers of research.
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