Re:My experiment with smart drugs: Viagra for the brain?
by antiform on Thursday May 15, 2008 @05:19PM
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I actually think the two sentences that follow that quote reveal a lot more about Paul Erdos.
"You've showed me I'm not an addict. But I didn't get any work done. I'd get up in the morning and stare at a blank piece of paper. I'd have no ideas, just like an ordinary person. You've set mathematics back a month."
"You've showed me I'm not an addict. But I didn't get any work done. I'd get up in the morning and stare at a blank piece of paper. I'd have no ideas, just like an ordinary person. You've set mathematics back a month."
(http://www.untruth.org/~josh/papers/Paul%20Erd%F6s%20bio-rev...)