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Anonymous Tue 17 Sep 09:31:23 2019 No.10980084 View Reply Original Report

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Why won't Terry just solve one of the Millennium Prize Problems? Isn't he a genius? Why are these problems still problems?

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Anonymous Tue 17 Sep 2019 09:32:31 No.10980085 Report

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>>10980084
JUST

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Anonymous Tue 17 Sep 2019 11:42:37 No.10980216 Report

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>>10980084
didnt he collab with ben green to prove some big result?

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Anonymous Tue 17 Sep 2019 11:52:40 No.10980226 Report

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>>10980084
He's smart enough to realize that it's way more fun to fuck around on manageable problems with your friends than to lock yourself in a room for 12 years and grind at one problem until you look like a ghoul.

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Anonymous Tue 17 Sep 2019 11:57:03 No.10980233 Report

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>>10980226
nah, child prodigies were just trained to be good little students. if he had different parents he could have been a physicist, tech billionaire, world leader, or olympian, but his mom and dad made him grind the chalkboard instead

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Anonymous Tue 17 Sep 2019 12:10:47 No.10980255 Report

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>>10980233
This, Geniuses should be used for shit that matters and not wasted on autistic crap.

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Anonymous Tue 17 Sep 2019 12:31:50 No.10980294 Report

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>>10980084
>Why won't Terry just solve one of the Millennium Prize Problems? Isn't he a genius?
Because he doesn't want to.
I mean, dude is 44, a genius to everyone else and gets to work with whatever he wants to because he has safe employment. Can you imagine being in a comfier place?

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Anonymous Tue 17 Sep 2019 15:26:24 No.10980556 Report

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>>10980084
>Why are these problems still problems?
Because, they are not really problems per se. Most are just made up for grant fodder, wheel spinning, brain drain psyops, and/or notoriety.

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