Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan

Re:Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan by fragmede on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @01:52AM (#41922199)

You mean a world where someone like Terence Tao gets to be a professor of mathematics at UCLA, where he holds the James and Carol Collins Chair in the College of Letters and Sciences?

That brilliant geniuses have chosen corporate America and to not go into academia is yours and mine and the world's loss, but a defining feature of the Western world is that they get to make that choice for themselves.

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Re:Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan by mandmandam on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @07:20AM (#41923838)

> a defining feature of the Western world is that they get to make that choice for themselves.

... As if people outside the West have no self-determination? Pretty questionable, on multiple levels. And another indication of absurdly binary thinking/rhetoric. Good luck with that.

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