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| Apr 12, 2014 at 13:12 | comment | added | Marcus Johnson | The quote is from Arnold | |
| Nov 15, 2010 at 16:56 | comment | added | Jon Bannon | No problem, Harry. Readers beware! | |
| Nov 14, 2010 at 5:46 | comment | added | Harry Gindi | The thing about polymaths is paraphrased from Jean Dieudonné, where the polymath in question was Riemann. Further, he was talking about the Bourbaki project, not mathematics in general. Sorry to burst your bubble =(. | |
| Oct 26, 2010 at 19:30 | comment | added | Hans Lundmark | For more analogies of a similar kind, see Freeman Dyson's "Birds and Frogs": ams.org/notices/200902/rtx090200212p.pdf | |
| Oct 26, 2010 at 17:38 | history | edited | Jon Bannon | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Oct 26, 2010 at 17:04 | history | answered | Jon Bannon | CC BY-SA 2.5 |