Noether and Ramanujan, in different ways, showed how talent can overcome real, massive social obstacles.
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But they also provide examples of...real, massive social obstacles.
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w/o influential patrons, neither would have gotten as far. One has to assume many other people never had patrons.
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ie I'm stating qualified support for 'oppression theory'. Though I suspect it's not as relevant to T. Tao.
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.