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My assumption is that usage would be higher at more prestigious universities

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• amelius 5y ago
  There's this joke about mathematicians turning coffee into proofs, but it might as well be about Ritalin.
  • pizza 5y ago
    Erdös first did mathematics at the age of three, but for the last twenty-five years of his life, since the death of this mother, he put in nineteen-hour days, keeping himself fortified with 10 to 20 milligrams of Benzedrine or Ritalin, strong espresso, and caffeine tablets. ___ "A mathematician," Erdös was fond of saying, "is a machine for tuning coffee into theorems." When friends urged him to slow down, he always had the same response: "There'll be plenty of time to rest in the grave." ___ Erdős's friends worried about his drug use, and in 1979 Graham bet Erdős $500 that he couldn't stop taking amphetamines for a month. Erdős accepted, and went cold turkey for a complete month. Erdős's comment at the end of the month was "You've showed me I'm not an addict. But I didn't get any work done. http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2012/08/erdos-and-amphetamines-check.html http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2012/08/erdos-and-amphetami...
    • user_7832 5y ago
      If I'm not mistaken he said that the bet had set mathematics back by a month.