What's the most one can do math?

>>9006359
Permanent brain damage because of lack of sleep and seclusion for one.

>>9006359
It doesn't take 146,000 hours to finish studying math.

>>9006364
sweet

Learning doesn't work that way. Cognitive performance has been shown to decrease 0.1% per minute of work and to increase 1% per minute of rest, which is why we have to spend about 10% of our workday resting even for jobs that aren't physically strenuous. Also, resting isn't just resting. A lot of creativity happens during sleep, leisure, play, and so forth. People with reasonably balanced lives end up being more productive, not less. Which is perhaps why China for all its 15-hour study regimens is still struggling to produce an innovative elite anywhere close to the West's, despite its population and IQ advantage.

>>9006399
links?

>>9006364
I've read that some people have a gene that allows them to get away with little sleep. Then most NEETs are homebound so I don't see why this couldn't be theoretically possible.

>>9006429

I'm on a phone at the moment, but look up "Momentary work recovery" (Trougakos, Hideg 2009) and "Dynamics of working hours in construction" (Alvanchi et al. 2012).

>Twenty hours of work a day was not unusual. Upon arriving at a meeting, he would announce, in his thick Hungarian accent, "my brain is open." At parties, he would often stand alone oblivious to all else, deep in thought pondering some difficult argument.
https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_Erdős

>>9006399
>Cognitive performance has been shown to ...
Doesn't make sense.
Would you compare the stamina of an elite marathon runner to that of a fat fuck?
The fatty would collapse dead after a mile.
A lot of different factors play a role.
A fit hypomanic mathematician who takes care about diet and is going through a collection of books/papers without rushing could pull it off in my opinion.

>>9006530
>could pull it off in my opinion.
I mean, maybe not for ten years but a few weeks or months yes.