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@Meaningness @sarahdoingthing Not "enlightment", which has newagey connotations. "Enlightening", yes. More to the point...
@Meaningness @sarahdoingthing "mathematical maturity", "lore", "toolbox" are all common concepts that overlap it significantly.
@Meaningness @sarahdoingthing Rota's take just seems really strawmanny to me.
@Meaningness @sarahdoingthing There's a (modal) distaste for talking about the Big Issues for their own sake, maybe Grothendieck fallout.
@Meaningness @sarahdoingthing Talking about Big Issues is a common feature of cranks who gravitate to math departments, too.
@St_Rev @sarahdoingthing Yeah, that would probably be me :-)
@Meaningness @sarahdoingthing No, I'm talking about genuinely damaged people. Every department seems to have one.
@Meaningness @sarahdoingthing At FAU the guy had some kind of brain injury, obvious scar on his head, people were afraid to run him off.
@Meaningness @sarahdoingthing At UGa it was an autistic guy in a windbreaker who showed up at department teas to scarf cookies.
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