> This statement appears to rely on a circular definition of intelligence The statement is a metaphor. Mathematicians are commonly deemed intelligent, with hig

> This statement appears to rely on a circular definition of intelligence The statement is a metaphor. Mathematicians are commonly deemed intelligent, with high variability of course, as university graduates generally are. On the meta level, mathematicians provided a lot of the basis which computers and programs are build from. Now it's poetic freedom to include programmers who venture into mathematics in this fuzzy term.