Re:Transcript of a Donald Knuth interview (2006)
by zump on Monday November 23, 2015 @07:01PM
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Interesting to see how he became "good".
"I worked the supplementary problems. I was, you know, I was scared I wouldn’t learn calculus, so I worked hard on it ... But after a year, I could do all of those problems in the same time as my classmates were doing the assigned problems, and after that I could just coast in mathematics"
Is this another nail in the coffin for the myth of genius?
"I worked the supplementary problems. I was, you know, I was scared I wouldn’t learn calculus, so I worked hard on it ... But after a year, I could do all of those problems in the same time as my classmates were doing the assigned problems, and after that I could just coast in mathematics"
Is this another nail in the coffin for the myth of genius?