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Almost everyone can do some kind of math. For the same amount of discipline and effort, some people can prove Fermat's Last Theorem, and some people can prove F
by gohrt 10y ago
Almost everyone can do some kind of math. For the same amount of discipline and effort, some people can prove Fermat's Last Theorem, and some people can prove Fermat's Little Theorem.
And everyone can coast. Some people can get as far as Calculus without really trying, and some people can only get to basic arithmetic without really trying.
But no one can just wander up to a whiteboard and solve a unproven theorem from intuition alone.
- meowface 10y ago>But no one can just wander up to a whiteboard and solve a unproven theorem from intuition alone. ...except von Neumann. But most would agree he really did have something special about him. (Especially if you include his frequent desires to nuke Russia.)