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		huachimingo on April 30, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Majority of mathematicians hail from just 24 scien... I've always wondered why today we dont have people like them. Is science stagnating (aka Law of diminishing returns)?

layer8 on May 1, 2022 | [–]

The fruits are hanging higher up nowadays.

Ar-Curunir on May 1, 2022 | [–]

Each field has folks like these, you just don’t hear of them because fields are super specialized.

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