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Re:What does genius look like in math? Where does it come? D... by techbio on Friday August 24, 2018 @11:10AM (#17835397)
While Redditisms leaking into HN comments are usually downvoted, I actually got this for the first time just now. Probably because while on HN I wear my thinking cap, and on Reddit I read mainly for amusement and don't spend the time to look as closely. So a qualified thank you, that was clever.
Re:What does genius look like in math? Where does it come? D... by sp332 on Friday August 24, 2018 @04:05PM (#17837522)
It was popularized by Douglas Hofstadter, the guy who wrote Gödel, Escher, Bach among other things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter