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I think Zhang's previous result was good enough to rebuff Hardy's claims. Actually I think Math is more or less a young people's game is because whence someone
by markus_zhang 4y ago
I think Zhang's previous result was good enough to rebuff Hardy's claims.
Actually I think Math is more or less a young people's game is because whence someone be super successful and famous it's kinda difficult psychological to retain the previous mental state and push out similar results.
- gavagai691 4y ago"I think Zhang's previous result was good enough to rebuff Hardy's claims." I agree.
- ConcernedCoder 4y agoage is just a number, some people may have a prejudice against larger numbers, and that to me, seems irrational
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- salty_biscuits 4y agoPlenty of counterexamples to the claim https://mathoverflow.net/questions/25630/major-mathematical-advances-past-age-fifty https://mathoverflow.net/questions/25630/major-mathematical-...
- gavagai691 4y agoMore counterexamples here too: https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/xw8i9w/oldest_person_to_publish_in_annals_top_5_journal/ https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/xw8i9w/oldest_person_....
- markus_zhang 4y agoJust curious how many examples that show FIRST major discovery after say 40? I think I spotted a few.
- astrange 4y agoThis was an interesting one - a proof by a 67 year old retiree that nobody in the field knew about for 2-3 years after because they didn't read their email. https://www.quantamagazine.org/20170328-statistician-proves-gaussian-correlation-inequality/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/20170328-statistician-proves-...
- warbler73 4y agoMarjorie Rice. Housewife. https://www.quantamagazine.org/marjorie-rices-secret-pentagons-20170711/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/marjorie-rices-secret-pentago... Her discoveries first mentioned in a 1988 magazine when she was 65.
- wikfwikf 4y agoThe discovery of these pentomino tilings is an interesting achievement and evidence of an exceptional mind, but it's very far from a major advance in mathematics.
- gradschoolfail 4y agoMight come off as political, but Americans need need to throw off the yoke of British intellectual affectations, especially pre WWI ones.
- mangamadaiyan 4y agoI think you're conflating Hardy's thoughts as a mathematician, with the politics of his country of origin. The two, as far as I know, weren't really connected
- jjgreen 4y agoHuh? Could you expand on this? Disclosure: a Brit who does not see Americans oppressed by compatriot affectations.
- vitiral 4y agoThe structure of the modern education system is what Brittain designed to run an effective empire before any communication system existed. Every student made to operate independently as an arm of the British empire with standardized knowledge and skills, like cogs in an enormous beautiful machine.