The more conventional-minded you are, the more it must seem to you that it's always safe to express your opinions.
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Gauss worked for decades without mathematical peers. Jacobi, Abel, and Galois appeared too late: his solitary habits were deeply ingrained.
Oh, you mean working alone? Newton did more than that. After getting trolled early on, he stopped even wanting to publish.
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Yes, that's true. And likewise with Gauss. He left vast amounts of work unpublished, mostly because he could imagine no one reading it.
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But also because it was simply too much work to put so many subtle arcana into a form capable of satisfying his painstaking perfectionism.
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The accounts I've read attribute spitefulness to newton's reticence to publish. Is that true. Gauss seems more hopeless than spiteful.
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Newton's reticence to publish and his ruthless hostility toward perceived opponents were distinct impulses. He didn't care to be understood.
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