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"Nobody pops out of the womb a math genius" Two thirds of the world's current math researchers can trace lineage to just 23, 17th century mathematicians. Sour
by nibs 10y ago
"Nobody pops out of the womb a math genius"
Two thirds of the world's current math researchers can trace lineage to just 23, 17th century mathematicians.
Source: http://www.nature.com/news/majority-of-mathematicians-hail-from-just-24-scientific-families-1.20491 http://www.nature.com/news/majority-of-mathematicians-hail-f...
- scarmig 10y agoReally odd misreading. That's a lineage of teacher-pupil relations, not genetic. If anything, it points in the opposite direction of what you're claiming, though in reality it's either just a statement about the clubbiness of mathematics or a statistical likelihood because of how trees work.