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I didn’t meant it in a way to diminish how clever he is. Just the bit about dropping out is overstated relative to what came straight after.
by arturkane7 3y ago
I didn’t meant it in a way to diminish how clever he is. Just the bit about dropping out is overstated relative to what came straight after.
- linhvn 3y agoYes, it was lucky that he was tutored my a Fields medalist. But he did the hard work to get himself tutored: sitting in an algebraic geometry class (that saw attendances dropping from 200 to 5 within a few weeks), reaching out to the professor, traveling with him for 2 years, etc. And then he still needed to do all the work himself for his PhD, and so forth.