>>12700464I genuinely don't consider Tooker a schizo at all, rather a deep poet of the internet era, a poet who worked in the medium of mathematics prose, to express a mathematical religiosity that is difficult to express, except through his unique method. There will only ever be a few like him. He is very unlike most of the crackpots that math folk will encounter in unsolicited manuscripts in their mailbox.
I strive to be as original as him every day, and when I am not productive, I always am ashamed, because 2kr would be writing seven pages full of unique original ideas in the time it takes me to get just a handful of boring pedestrian ideas that do nothing to break the mold. It is humbling to compare yourself to him.
I remember when I first encountered him. You couldn't help but admire the determination. It is idea after idea after idea, all of them completely mad, but you could begin to see the coherence behind them, that they were based on expressing the innermost content of his soul. He is honest, if nothing else.
