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It is weird. Doing great mathematics is like writing great poetry in a language only a few hundred people can read. And yet, every once in a while a mathematica
by mhartl 12y ago
It is weird. Doing great mathematics is like writing great poetry in a language only a few hundred people can read. And yet, every once in a while a mathematical poem changes the world.
- lutusp 12y agoYes, and it's often the case that, faced with such a "poem", the world changes without ever understanding the mechanism of the change, as with both relativity and quantum theories.