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I do find it amazing that mathematicians seem to have almost infinite time to work on problems, and so much freedom to choose what they're working on. How grea
by cschmidt 5y ago
I do find it amazing that mathematicians seem to have almost infinite time to work on problems, and so much freedom to choose what they're working on. How great that a big group of people can collectively decide to spend years creating a book like this.
- Koshkin 5y agoWhat is amazing to me is that most people think they do not have such freedom.
- vlovich123 5y agoMost people don’t as doing so requires a level of talent, intelligence, and work ethic/determination that’s in the upper tail of human distribution. Paradoxically, many people who could probably do underestimate their talents while others who can’t/should t overestimate theirs. The universe is funny in that way.
- paulpauper 5y agoThe US ,global economy is huge. colleges have billion of dollars of endowments and tuition. More than enough $ to go around to fund it