> I think that literally any academic mathematician could have explained to them, had they asked, why it is considered extraordinarily rude to react to rumors of research progress by desperately rushing to get there first.
Pretty much all of math and science history is basically this pattern again and again. I'm sure all of that was rude as well.
Pretty much all of math and science history is basically this pattern again and again. I'm sure all of that was rude as well.