Makes you wonder what's the most impactful thing you could build given the possibility of seven years of isolation and single-minded focus. Would be interestin

Makes you wonder what's the most impactful thing you could build given the possibility of seven years of isolation and single-minded focus. Would be interesting to know, at which point did Freedman decide to commit full time to his research---based on what, an intuition? And how did he decide to stop at 7 years and not 4, 9 or 10? This is advanced stuff for me but I'll still be getting a copy of _The Disc Embedding Theorem_ to support this kind of niche research. Findings like these could be stepping stones towards bigger discoveries in the future.