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Re:Mathematicians are chronically lost and confused (2014) by nilkn on Friday June 10, 2016 @03:39PM (#11879361)
> I've never encountered anyone who understood typical second year graduate level mathematics without formal training.

I've known one such person. He skipped Math 55 at Harvard as a freshman because it was too basic for him.

He's such an extreme outlier though that there's almost nothing to learn from his case other than to marvel at it.

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