• rollin@piefed.social
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      3 hours ago

      his github profile has some gems:

      As far as I know (Correct me if I’m wrong.), nobody else discovered more than one fundamental branch of mathematics (Von Neumann discovered several, but they are not quite fundamental), I did this about 4-5 times (dependently on how to count). It is kinda a world record.

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      2 hours ago

      Let’s be fair: He never claimed to be much of a humanist. One can hardly expect “the word-best expert in general topology” and the person, who, according to the included unfinished paper “did a half of work” to have capacity left over for basic spelling and grammar.