Innovation in Mathematics (It’s Not About the Lone Genius)
Dr. Jordan Ellenberg, a child prodigy and now a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin, challenges “The cult of the child genius” in the Wall Street Journal: There is a myth that progress in mathematics is driven by the cognitive one percent of one percenters, marked at birth, who blaze a path for… Read More Innovation in Mathematics (It’s Not About the Lone Genius)