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He falls more towards the idiot savant side for me. Not because he was necessarily dumb, but he channeled his intelligence in such useless ways. All raw intelle
by sdwr 3y ago
He falls more towards the idiot savant side for me. Not because he was necessarily dumb, but he channeled his intelligence in such useless ways. All raw intellect, and no cohesion, theme or application.
I read his story as a cautionary tale, along with Euler, someone to be pitied.
Plato, Da Vinci, Einstein tried to make sense of the bigger picture. They grounded their intellect in the real world.
- gmadsen 3y agothats because he was entirely self taught.. I'm sure if he had the upbringing of western high society like most famous european mathematicians, he would probably have more of the cohesion you are talking about
- sshine 3y agoSome of the smartest professors I’ve had, in terms of academic ranking, were millionaires for doing graph-based algo companies that got acquired, others were virgins who lived with their mom. Intelligence alone doesn’t seem like it automatically leads to success in all possible ways; some mathematicians just don’t care about wealth.