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It's not even just Kaczynski. Grothendieck, Perelman became recluses too.


Brouwer and Gödel … many of them. But each so differently, and sometimes you feel how their mental disrepair would be related either to the content of their work, or to this work’s status in the mathematical community


I also think that with age, the passion for some ideas become second to other emotions.




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