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That's what makes the old-school polymaths like Goethe and Von Neumann so amazing to me - they not only did it in a single field, but many, all relatively simul
by jaggederest 15y ago
That's what makes the old-school polymaths like Goethe and Von Neumann so amazing to me - they not only did it in a single field, but many, all relatively simultaneously.
- sev 15y agoMany, which are very closely related. Computer science and mathematics are essentially one and the same, or maybe a subset of another (as an example)
- kevinalexbrown 15y agoGoethe did more than math or CS.