>>10883128Unlike physical/athletic skills,
you can do math whenever.
Joan Birman, famous top knot theory researcher, literally didn't start math until her 40s.
Edward Witten won the fields medal after finishing degrees in like poly science.
Smale was a C and F student and after being threatened to be kicked out, actually started working towards something.
Lots of fuckers literally didn't start doing anything until grad school or even after.
Prodigy of the mind is innate, not earned like athleticism.