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I was going to come here to say that. I remember being a teenager and giving up in frustration at IMO problems. And I was competing at IPhO.
by dsign 2y ago
I was going to come here to say that. I remember being a teenager and giving up in frustration at IMO problems. And I was competing at IPhO.
- kevinventullo 2y agoYeah, as a former research mathematician, I think “fumbling around blindly” is not an entirely unfair description of the research process. I believe even Wiles in a documentary described his search for the proof of Fermat’s last theorem as groping around in a pitch black room, but once the proof was discovered it was like someone turned the lights on.