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> The economist John Maynard Keynes identified Ramsey as a major talent when he was a mathematics student at Cambridge in the early 1920s. During his undergradu
by skinkestek 7y ago
> The economist John Maynard Keynes identified Ramsey as a major talent when he was a mathematics student at Cambridge in the early 1920s. During his undergraduate days, Ramsey demolished Keynes’ theory of probability and...
> Keynes, in an impressive show of administrative skill and sleight of hand, made the 21-year-old Ramsey a fellow of King’s College at a time when only someone who had studied there could be a fellow. (Ramsey had done his degree at Trinity).
Wow, seriously, that's the way we ought to treat people who "demolish" our ideas :-)
Edit: I should probably say that I have been trying to behave like this for a few years already at my scale, my point is that this is inspiring.
Oh, and there exist people who are so toxic on top of being blunt that I probably wouldn't work with them even if it gave me a 5% chance to make the worlds first commercial viable fusion reactor.
- eruditely 7y agoBy the way, it's alleged by a famous professor(?) and amazon reviewer Michael Emmet Brady that Ramsey in no way "demolished" his theory and that this particular problem has drawn people away from respecting and appreciating Keynes immense work in philosophy of probability here is the review: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2927587 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2927587 "An Examination of the Fundamental Reasons Why Frank Ramsey Failed in His Reviews of J M Keynes's a Treatise on Probability"