I think your point applies, especially to math. These days research math is a very collaborative and social endeavor. Terry Tao would probably disagree very str

I think your point applies, especially to math. These days research math is a very collaborative and social endeavor. Terry Tao would probably disagree very strongly with you: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/does-one-have-to-be-a-genius-to-do-maths/ https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/does-one-have-t... “The popular image of the lone genius ... is a charming and romantic image, but also a wildly inaccurate one, at least in the world of modern mathematics.”