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That is very relative, coming later there is a lot more fruit to pick
by cambalache 6y ago
That 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).