Fear of “feeling uncomfortable” has to be one of the top reasons most folks never achieve their goalshttps://twitter.com/ProfFeynman/status/1083716432708415493 …
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Bill Thurston's - one of the great mathematicians of the past century - MathOverflow biography describes this movingly, IMO: https://mathoverflow.net/users/9062/bill-thurston …pic.twitter.com/hk5sRDHGq9
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Replying to @michael_nielsen @katgleason
it reminded me of Wiles' words after proving Fermat's Last Theorempic.twitter.com/jlUcQhgvJm
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stumbling around in the dark for the sake of eventual real understanding... not just knowing the “name of something”.. but knowing in the deepest sense possible :)1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
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From 0:30 to 1:55 in the documentary this is from is remarkable:https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1btavd
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Replying to @michael_nielsen @katgleason
amazing, thanks. it's been almost a decade since I read about Andrew Wiles and his work for the first time, and still, I can remember it very vividly.
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Just rewatching parts of this. What a beautiful, beautiful story.
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Something I like is that the world's press responded immediately. Humans have such an instinctive desire for the numinous, and appreciation (often retrospective) for its brave discoverers.
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Replying to @michael_nielsen @katgleason
true. See also what happened last summer around Riemann hypothesis and back in the days about Poincare's conjecture.
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