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Re:Ask HN: Where do the smartest people you know work? by conformist on Monday December 04, 2023 @05:59PM (#38524395)
By pure IQ: The smartest people I know very likely work in pure maths at universities.
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Re:Ask HN: Where do the smartest people you know work? by doublemint2203 on Monday December 04, 2023 @06:03PM (#38524441)
pure maths folks at the highest level seem like organic compute machines that sleep
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Re:Ask HN: Where do the smartest people you know work? by ahazred8ta on Monday December 04, 2023 @06:07PM (#38524493)
Rényi declared "A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems."
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Re:Ask HN: Where do the smartest people you know work? by afjeafaj848 on Monday December 04, 2023 @07:28PM (#38525398)
I feel like all fields eventually become math when it gets hard
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