Creative work as "playing chess with the devil". From a profile of Terry Tao http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/magazine/the-singular-mind-of-terry-tao.html?_r=0 …pic.twitter.com/UAPcsPxW7P
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@worrydream@michael_nielsen efficient, frustrating exploration, but exploration itself. The rest of Norbert's comparison is apt though :-)
@DanielleFong @worrydream Although, per Fefferman, one's understanding may change so much that it seems as though the Devil changed strategy
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@michael_nielsen@worrydream agree on both counts; but I think it's interesting that there's a correspondence... -
@DanielleFong@worrydream One of my colleagues had Piet Hein's "Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back" on his door... - 1 more reply
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