03 April, 2017

A Retiree Discovers an Elusive Math Proof—And Nobody Notices | WIRED

A Retiree Discovers an Elusive Math Proof—And Nobody Notices | WIRED: "The “feeling of deep joy and gratitude” that comes from finding an important proof has been reward enough. “It is like a kind of grace,” he said. “We can work for a long time on a problem and suddenly an angel—[which] stands here poetically for the mysteries of our neurons—brings a good idea.”

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