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Imagine having a president with the intellectual ability to create a novel mathematical proof, and the humility to publish it without claiming to be the greates

Imagine having a president with the intellectual ability to create a novel mathematical proof, and the humility to publish it without claiming to be the greatest mathematician of all time…

adventured 10mo ago
If we had a president that could create novel mathematic proofs, I'd be happy to tolerate the arrogance at this point. At least there'd be some substance there.
- YesThatTom2 10mo ago
  I hope you would but… The only intellectual that served as president in the last 100 years was Obama and we(1) shit all over him every day for “atrocities” such as wearing a brown suit. (1) not me and probably not you but it was a national talking point for weeks
  - isoprophlex 10mo ago
    I thought that was quite a fashionable suit, and wish I could pull off wearing something like that
  - BigTTYGothGF 10mo ago
    If you bump that up to 110 years you bring in Woodrow Wilson, one of the all-time worst presidents.
    - rflrob 10mo ago
      I’m curious how you came to that conclusion. While he’s certainly not in the pantheon of best presidents, he ends up around the 75th percentile in rankings by historians. Even subtracting a few spots, he’s nowhere near close to “one of the all-time worst“. Or are you faulting him for not resigning when incapacitated by a stroke? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_presidents_of_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_preside...
      - BigTTYGothGF 10mo ago
        WWI plus all the racism, including re-segregation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson_and_race#Segregating_the_federal_bureaucracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson_and_race#Segreg...)
  - zorked 10mo ago
    Never heard about the brown suit. But I heard about the drone strikes.
Waterluvian 10mo ago
I don’t have to imagine. https://www.proquest.com/docview/301464456/ https://www.proquest.com/docview/301464456/
- stephenlf 10mo ago
  Nice
- xpe 10mo ago
  For those who can't be bothered to go a'link-clicking, the above refers Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada, which means he ministers to prime numbers living at the north pole.
- ThrowawayTestr 10mo ago
  That's a Prime Minister, not a president
  - Waterluvian 10mo ago
    Potato potehto.
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icpmoles 10mo ago
Peru's experience with a President with a math degree didn't go that well

Imagine having a president with the intellectual ability to create a novel mathematical proof, and the humility to publish it without claiming to be the greatest mathematician of all time…

adventured 10mo ago

If we had a president that could create novel mathematic proofs, I'd be happy to tolerate the arrogance at this point. At least there'd be some substance there.

YesThatTom2 10mo ago
I hope you would but… The only intellectual that served as president in the last 100 years was Obama and we(1) shit all over him every day for “atrocities” such as wearing a brown suit. (1) not me and probably not you but it was a national talking point for weeks
- isoprophlex 10mo ago
  I thought that was quite a fashionable suit, and wish I could pull off wearing something like that
- BigTTYGothGF 10mo ago
  If you bump that up to 110 years you bring in Woodrow Wilson, one of the all-time worst presidents.
  - rflrob 10mo ago
    I’m curious how you came to that conclusion. While he’s certainly not in the pantheon of best presidents, he ends up around the 75th percentile in rankings by historians. Even subtracting a few spots, he’s nowhere near close to “one of the all-time worst“. Or are you faulting him for not resigning when incapacitated by a stroke? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_presidents_of_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_preside...
    - BigTTYGothGF 10mo ago
      WWI plus all the racism, including re-segregation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson_and_race#Segregating_the_federal_bureaucracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson_and_race#Segreg...)
- zorked 10mo ago
  Never heard about the brown suit. But I heard about the drone strikes.

Waterluvian 10mo ago

I don’t have to imagine. https://www.proquest.com/docview/301464456/ https://www.proquest.com/docview/301464456/

stephenlf 10mo ago
Nice
xpe 10mo ago
For those who can't be bothered to go a'link-clicking, the above refers Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada, which means he ministers to prime numbers living at the north pole.
ThrowawayTestr 10mo ago
That's a Prime Minister, not a president
- Waterluvian 10mo ago
  Potato potehto.

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icpmoles 10mo ago

Peru's experience with a President with a math degree didn't go that well