>>13474115The story of Andre Weil lends a lot of credence to the concept of dopamine fasting. He wrote very positively of his experience in prison.
>Actually, since I saw you, my arithmetico-algebraic research has got off to a good start. I have found some interesting things - to the point where I'm hoping to have some more time here to finish in peace and quietwhat I've started. I'm beginning to think that nothing is more conducive to the abstract sciences than prison. My Hindu friend Vij. often used to say that if he spent six months or a year in prison he would most certainly be able to prove the Riemann hypothesis. This may have been true, but he never got the chance. [...]
>(April 7) My mathematics work is proceeding beyond my wildest hopes, and I am even a bit worried -if it's only in prison that I work so well, will I have to arrange to spend two or three months locked up every
year? In the meantime, I am contemplating writing a report to the proper authorities, as follows: "To the Director of Scientific Research: Having recently been in a position to discover through personal experience the considerable advantages afforded to pure and distinterested research by a stay in the establishments of the Penitentiary System, I take the liberty of, etc. etc." [...]
