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“People” need to be better defined. In the case of pure math, “people” are your fellow mathematicians in your specific subfield or adjacent.
by j7ake 2y ago
“People” need to be better defined. In the case of pure math, “people” are your fellow mathematicians in your specific subfield or adjacent.
- rockemsockem 2y agoThis is such a math answer, lol. I love it.
- gradschoolfail 2y agoThe “other” in “people” needs to be there :) One may cite Grothendieck as counterexamples, but maybe they still only had themselves in their adjacent subfields (at the time they made their most impactful discoveries, anyway)