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0 pointscarabiner4y ago0 comments

It's not even just Kaczynski. Grothendieck, Perelman became recluses too.

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valyagolev4y ago· 1 in thread

Brouwer and Gödel … many of them. But each so differently, and sometimes you feel how their mental disrepair would be related either to the content of their work, or to this work’s status in the mathematical community

agumonkey4y ago

I also think that with age, the passion for some ideas become second to other emotions.

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