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I think it's worthwhile to ask - in what other fields do exceptional people become consensus world-class experts after four years of part-time study?

• romwell 3y ago
  It's rare in any field, that's why he's coonsidered a savant. But it's possible in many fields too - including mathematics[1][2][3], aerospace engineering [4][5], theoretical physics[6], computer science[7], etc. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Banach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Banach [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Heaviside https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Heaviside [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Tsiolkovsky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Tsiolkovsky [6] https://insidetheperimeter.ca/where-did-it-come-from-bose-lasers/ https://insidetheperimeter.ca/where-did-it-come-from-bose-la... [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds
• debo_ 3y ago
  Javascript?