Mathematics is the field most associated with formal institutional training — the image of a professor filling a blackboard, the PhD student proving a lemma at midnight, the unbroken chain of credentialed expertise stretching back to ancient Greece. And yet the history of the discipline is threaded through with people who arrived at major discoveries from completely different directions: a Nottingham miller working in the upper floors of a windm…
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