He Dropped Out to Become a Poet. Now He’s Won a Fields Medal (2022)

Re:He Dropped Out to Become a Poet. Now He’s Won a Fields Me... by arturkane7 on Saturday August 05, 2023 @08:45AM (#37011477)

lol these are meant to be ironic comments, seems you are taking them far too seriously. Look up Erdos’s story to understand his irony.

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Re:He Dropped Out to Become a Poet. Now He’s Won a Fields Me... by AlecSchueler on Saturday August 05, 2023 @08:51AM (#37011529)

I just think it's sad because a lot of people are put off by this kind of snobbery in mathematics.

Joking or ironic or not it can still be harmful.

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Re:He Dropped Out to Become a Poet. Now He’s Won a Fields Me... by tekla on Saturday August 05, 2023 @09:06AM (#37011641)

I find it harmful that you think that this is snobbery.

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Re:He Dropped Out to Become a Poet. Now He’s Won a Fields Me... by bjornasm on Saturday August 05, 2023 @10:01AM (#37012084)

Yeah agree. The world becomes a bleak place if people are not allowed to joke around a bit, especially harmless jokes as those.

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Re:He Dropped Out to Become a Poet. Now He’s Won a Fields Me... by tveita on Saturday August 05, 2023 @10:11AM (#37012171)

If it was said about e.g. accounting it could come off as snobbery. Everyone knows that being a poet requires imagination, so no one is going to see it as anything other than a light-hearted joke.

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Re:He Dropped Out to Become a Poet. Now He’s Won a Fields Me... by mejutoco on Saturday August 05, 2023 @10:36AM (#37012414)

On the other side, if it was said about lawyers nobody would ever complain :)

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Re:He Dropped Out to Become a Poet. Now He’s Won a Fields Me... by hgsgm on Saturday August 05, 2023 @05:15PM (#37016368)

The point of the quote is that mathematics requires more imagination.

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