And it’s not only never done, it’s always on the verge of dying off. Like Bill Thurston said, mathematical understanding basically lives in communities of mathe

And it’s not only never done, it’s always on the verge of dying off. Like Bill Thurston said, mathematical understanding basically lives in communities of mathematicians, every one of them a cell in the superorganism that is the field. You’re part of the distributed filesystem providing persistence as well as the possibility of new understanding. https://mathoverflow.net/questions/43690/whats-a-mathematician-to-do/44213#44213 https://mathoverflow.net/questions/43690/whats-a-mathematici...