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Re:I'm 20, brilliant and totally lost by bitwize on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @03:47PM (#906240)
Paul Erdős never married or had kids; that biological fact alone is thought to account for his prolific mathematical output (and why we have an Erdős number).
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Re:I'm 20, brilliant and totally lost by potatolicious on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @04:00PM (#906275)
But what if I want to marry/have kids, and don't give a hoot about my mathematical output?

Whatever makes people happy eh? Not everyone needs to be an Einstein.

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Re:I'm 20, brilliant and totally lost by zackattack on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @09:14PM (#906902)
You're being defensive. All he said was that Erdös had high output and it was postulated to be related to his lack of family life. Nobody here is making value judgments about a prescribed good life.
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