Freeman Dyson is a living legend. He's worked with the greatest physicists of the 20th century (including Feynman, Oppenheimer, and Bethe). And he has no PhD:https://youtu.be/rlaPLvETBug
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Mathematics needs every living species.
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but, does every living species need mathematics?
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So what we need are tree frogs then?
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Puts me a little bit in mind of http://www.public.iastate.edu/~sturges/Humor/pachyderm.html … …
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(And, of course, there are the foxes & the hedgehogs :) )pic.twitter.com/Qng5c7wIrG
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And some historians are hedgehogs; some are foxes.
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, others are frogs
. In this fascinating essay Freeman Dyson discusses the difference the two and how Mathematics needs both of them.
A great read:



