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Math (and I’m a math major) has a hard-on for youth. So does comp sci. Everyone wants to pretend they’re Abel or Galois in Math.

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• texaslonghorn5 4y ago
  And even Abel and Galois completed their most important work near the end of their lives.
  • sverhagen 4y ago
    I had to read up on these folks to understand that one of them was shot dead at 20, and the other attracted tuberculosis and died at 26.
    • cperciva 4y ago
      Pretty sure you mean "contracted" TB, but the typo did provide a humourous mental image.
      • sverhagen 4y ago
        I probably did. ESL, in over my head.
        • mLuby 4y ago
          Your first clause is complex and correct so you're doing just fine. :)
    • rob74 4y ago
      ...so even at the end of their lives they would have still easily qualified for the Fields Medal. Maybe they should receive a posthumous honorary one. Or maybe they already did?
      • raverbashing 4y ago
        Yes I think Galois deserves a Fields in his name
        • uKVZe85V 4y ago
          Well, not the same, but Galois did get fields in his name, actually https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galois_field https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galois_field . Is that what you intended?
          • raverbashing 4y ago
            Yes, that's the joke ;)
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