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I disagree. Like all disciplines, programming/software engineering at its apex is fundamentally a collaborative one. There are no "hermit" mathematicians or phy
by dvt 4y ago
I disagree. Like all disciplines, programming/software engineering at its apex is fundamentally a collaborative one. There are no "hermit" mathematicians or physicists. Ideas necessarily must be bounced around and refined.
- pg_bot 4y agoRamanujan, Perelman, Grothendieck, Gödel, Nakamoto, Heaviside...
- dvt 4y agoDon't confuse "formal training" with working in a vacuum (re: Ramanujan, Heaviside, etc.), all others are basically world-famous academics that went through typical doctoral programs and were in constant communication with their fellow academics; I mean, Godel's correspondence with von Neumann is extremely famous, and the same goes for Ramanujan's correspondence with Hardy. The age of the hermit polymath has been over for half a millennium.