Roy Casagranda: About Me
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Roy Casagranda: About Me
- A PhD knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.
from The Quantum Rules: How the Laws of Physics Explain Love, Success, and Everyday Life by Kunal Das
sari added
- In June 1983, Alexander Grothendieck sits down to write the preface to a mathematical manuscript called Pursuing Stacks . He is concerned by what he sees as a tacit disdain for the more “feminine side” of mathematics (which is related to what I’m calling the solitary creative state) in favor of the “hammer and chisel” of the finished theorem. By el... See more
from Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born by Henrik Karlsson
Alex Dobrenko added
In June 1983, Alexander Grothendieck sits down to write the preface to a mathematical manuscript called Pursuing Stacks . He is concerned by what he sees as a tacit disdain for the more “feminine side” of mathematics (which is related to what I’m calling the solitary creative state) in favor of the “hammer and chisel” of the finished theorem. By el
... See morefrom Cultivating a State of Mind Where New Ideas Are Born
It's interesting that this is labeled the feminine side of math?