Re:How Khan Academy Is Changing the Rules of Education
by commutant on Saturday July 16, 2011 @11:09AM
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> Professional mathematicians peak in their 20s, just after they stop solving "shallow" questions, and start poring over "deep" ones.
This is a ridiculous myth. As a truism, person's creative intellectual output is greatest when they are working hardest and have the greatest number of tools of creation available to them. I could go down a long list of mathematicians (famous and not famous) whose most influential work was done later in their careers.
This is a ridiculous myth. As a truism, person's creative intellectual output is greatest when they are working hardest and have the greatest number of tools of creation available to them. I could go down a long list of mathematicians (famous and not famous) whose most influential work was done later in their careers.