alt Hacker NewsMathematicians inhibit and explore a world that is completely made up and exists only in abstract.
I wonder if this makes them slowly get disconnected from the lived realities of billions of ordinary people.
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ks2048 • yesterday at 2:56 PM
When thinking about math, Tao is in another world unfamiliar to us. But, he grew up in our world and is a professor in our world and if you listen to him, seems like a pretty normal guy. I think he just made a bad analogy here.
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ksclk • yesterday at 9:14 PM
If true, this would be observed at least partially in software engineers as well, since what we deal with is kind of made up as well, but I don't see it.
How could a theoretical mathematician not be massively disconnected from the reality of life for the ordinary person? We usually celebrate their quirks until they come into conflict like this.