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Comment by cutemonster

> document the secret "oral tradition" of top mathematician

> A good number of Abel prize winners & Fields medallists have read my book and found it important and accurate. It's been blurbed by Steve Strogatz and Terry Tao.

Sounds like people mostly living in different bubbles? What do they know about the world?

They aren't hanging out with the kids who fail in school because maths and reading and writing is to hard, and then start selling drugs instead and get guns and start killing each other.

> [they] don't think it's because of their genes

Do you think someone would tell you, if he/she thought it was?

I mean, that can come off as arrogant? Wouldn't they rather tend to say "it was hard work, anyone can do it" and prioritize being liked by others

> Pareto-like distribution like what we see in math

Unclear to me what you have in mind. If there's a graph it'd be interesting to have a look? I wonder whats on the different axis, and how you arrived at the numbers and data points

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