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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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