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Re:Talent Search versus Talent Development (2019) [pdf] by Animats on Sunday July 07, 2024 @04:31PM (#40900237)
Outside the few hundred top mathematicians, how many advance the field much?
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Re:Talent Search versus Talent Development (2019) [pdf] by contravariant on Sunday July 07, 2024 @07:21PM (#40901301)
Depends what you mean by advance. If nobody but those few hundred mathematicians was even aware of mathematics then what would be the point?
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Re:Talent Search versus Talent Development (2019) [pdf] by downrightmike on Sunday July 07, 2024 @07:03PM (#40901237)
Every now and again, a tardy student writes down an impossible to solve problem and solves it because he thought it was just homework.
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Re:Talent Search versus Talent Development (2019) [pdf] by historyforsale on Monday July 08, 2024 @01:34PM (#40907416)
> Every now and again

As far as I can tell, this has only happened once, in 1939 [1].

[1]: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-unsolvable-math-proble...

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