Immortality, meanwhile, rolls its eyes. Still, it's interesting to see what motivates people to learn something (or to stay away from it). Better put: >"When y

Immortality, meanwhile, rolls its eyes. Still, it's interesting to see what motivates people to learn something (or to stay away from it). Better put: >"When you take a course in Euclidean geometry is not the teacher putting a... learning program into you? ...You enter the course and cannot do problems; the teacher puts into you a program and at the end of the course you can solve such problems. ...Are you sure you are not merely "programmed" in life by what by chance events happens to you?" - Hamming I'm curious as to how different mathematics would be for two otherwise identical civilizations but with distinct average lifespans. In alternate Earths where lifespan is 40 or 200 years, what's the state of mathematics in 2017?