> is there some circmstance in which it wouldn't be sad to hear of that death of someone who "reinforce a rather negative stereotype of mathematicians"? There

> is there some circmstance in which it wouldn't be sad to hear of that death of someone who "reinforce a rather negative stereotype of mathematicians"? There was definitely some rejoicing after a maths professor at my university died. The most common succinct explanation of this was that he "represented everything wrong with mathematics as a discipline", and a large part of why that is bad is that it reinforced negative stereotypes. Not saying the rejoicing was justified or that the death of a human being isn't sad, but many did rejoice, for better or worse including me. Not to say that Grothendieck's death was comparable. AFAIK he never sexually harassed anyone, or any of the other things said professor did.