Ask HN: 23, Too late to study Mathematics?

Re:Ask HN: 23, Too late to study Mathematics? by cottonseed on Thursday December 06, 2018 @07:36PM (#18624044)

23? Ha! No. I went back to school at 34 and got my PhD in pure math from Princeton when I was 40.

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Re:Ask HN: 23, Too late to study Mathematics? by psyklic on Friday December 07, 2018 @12:06AM (#18625287)

Raymond Smullyan also got his mathematics PhD from Princeton at 40.

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Re:Ask HN: 23, Too late to study Mathematics? by usgroup on Friday December 07, 2018 @02:10AM (#18625706)

Similarly. People fear lack of precedent or parting with convention much more than justified.

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