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Maybe you could have been Claude Shannon but he already solved those things. Sometimes coming later, the low hanging fruit has already been picked.
by djmips 6y ago
Maybe you could have been Claude Shannon but he already solved those things. Sometimes coming later, the low hanging fruit has already been picked.
- cambalache 6y agoThat is very relative, coming later there is a lot more fruit to pick
- TimTheTinker 6y agoTrue, but positioning oneself to do so involves learning more now than it did back then. I imagine the time investment required to contribute to a mathematical specialty increases logarithmically with time (and perhaps total knowledge accumulated is the reciprocal... though that assumes specialties get more and more narrow).