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| Oct 16, 2015 at 1:30 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | Rota cribbed that advice from Feynman (quote from Indiscrete Thoughts): "Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say: 'How did he do it? He must be a genius!'" | |
| S Oct 15, 2015 at 22:19 | history | answered | Timothy Chow | CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
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