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>unfortunately I'm blanking on his name John Nash (supposedly) had this mindset? Is that who you're thinking about?
by markussss 9y ago
>unfortunately I'm blanking on his name
John Nash (supposedly) had this mindset? Is that who you're thinking about?
- jdoliner 9y agoThat wasn't who I had in mind, but thanks for sharing that example. I think the guy I'm thinking of is at Cornell and still alive. He also might actually be in CS instead of Math. I tried googling it but, unfortunately, "math professor who doesn't read papers" didn't come up with any results.
- sabalaba 9y agoShinichi Mochizuki developed a new theory (IUT) which eventually yielded a proof to the abc conjecture. I believe he largely developed it in isolation and thus when it was published it took years to bring the rest of the community up to speed. Not sure if he doesn’t read other’s papers but maybe this is what’s you were thinking about? 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinichi_Mochizuki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinichi_Mochizuki 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-universal_Teichm%C3%BCller_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-universal_Teichm%C3%BCll... 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abc_conjecture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abc_conjecture
- ararar 9y agoYou might be thinking of R.L. Moore and his "Moore Method" except it was only used in a teaching context, not in day to day work. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_method https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_method
- SamReidHughes 9y agoMaybe it was a physics professor.