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So this is the man many consider the greatest mathematician

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of the 20th century

>One story has it that Grothendieck is now convinced that the Devil is working to falsify the speed of light. Schneps ascribes his concerns with the speed of light to his anxiety about the methodological compromises physicists make. He talks constantly, however, about the Devil, semi-metaphorically, sitting behind good people and nudging them in the direction of compromise, of the fudge, of the move towards corruption. ‘Uncompromising’ is the expression Schneps favours.

>In his correspondence with Leila Schneps, he told her he would be willing to share his research into physics with her if she could answer one question: ‘What is a metre?’

Justify yourselfs
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>>9015263
Clearly the greatest mathematician.
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>>9015280
he believed the devil falsified physics
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>>9015283
maybe he knew something you dont?
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Why he bald
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>>9015296
Hair places an undue burden of weight upon the mind, ergo if one shaves their head, one can think faster. He'd see a cumulative effect were he to also tattoo flames on his noggin.
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>>9015296
His superior brain needs an optimal cooling down device.
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>>9015296
A natural result of eliminating the need to consider hairbrushes separately, after proving them to be a special case of a fibred category.
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I'm asking how can you justify him being called the greatest mathematician of the 20th century if he believed dumb shit like this?
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>>9015332
Sometimes, smart people tend to be a little crazy. Newton believed and alchemy and was probably autistic. Those facts certainly didn't stop anyone from using the shit he wrote down in Principia.
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>>9015263
Physicists B T F O ! ! !
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>>9015332
>implying
Found the brainlet physicist.
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>>9015296
How has no one made a Lex Luthor joke yet?
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>>9015263
He is just a brilliant guy who fell for conspiracy theory meme.
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>>9015283
paranoia
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He was waxing poetic you brainlets. Schneps is a a woman craving attention.
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>>9015459
>implying he was wrong and physicists aren't unrigorous as fuck
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>>9015296
Because he deeply respected his father and his father was bald.
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>>9015263
>Devil is working to falsify the speed of light

B A S E D

The man knew things he shouldn't know.
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>>9015332
This has nothing to do with math. It has to do with the physicists and their lies.
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>>9015263
So apparently nobody managed to answer what is a meter? Do physics suffer from such a huge lack of rigor?
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How many threads do you /pol/acks need to do everyday on sci? You dont belong here

Contain yourself to your board or /b/
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>>9015263
Geniuses of that calibre are above questioning.
If he says the devil is working to falsify physics I believe him
If Gödel says someone is going to try and poison him, I believe him.
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>>9015678
He was a stateless far left radical pacifist, do you think that is beyond questioning?
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Ok let's this this through backwards. Let's say there is a devil who is indeed working to falsify the speed of light, what's in it for him? What would that devil achieve by falsifying c?
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>>9015674

What does this have to do with /pol/ you paranoid aspie?

Why can't we make threads about this goofy Christkiller in peace?
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>>9015263
dayum Ashkenazi men look like *THAaT*
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>>9015684
>He was a stateless far left radical pacifist, do you think that is beyond questioning?
Less questionable than the nationalistic far right radical genocide advocates you run into on /pol/
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>>9015684
forget about the devil and all that but besides being apart from the norm, what's inherently wrong with being stateless, far left, and pacifist
>hard mode, no 4chan meme answers
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>>9015783
>Less questionable than the nationalistic far right radical genocide advocates you run into on /pol/
Stateless far left radical living within the comfort of a first World European country with tight border controls, similar to the fat guy at the Chinese buffet complaining about being on the verge of starvation, makes you think!
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>>9015790
>stateless
It goes against human nature. What's the difference between letting outsiders into your country, and into your house?
>far left
As many problems as capitalism has, far left policies have always ended up in disaster. They simply cannot sustain a stable society for long. You're free to provide an example of a far left country big enough to be relevant that was successful and provided a good standard of living to its citizens.
>pacifist
War is an extension of politics so if you want to defend your standard of living, you have no other choice but to fight. Even the stoics accepted warfare as an unavoidable facet of life.
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>>9015790
Pacifism is inherently delusional because it is contrary to the very matter you are made of. Your atoms are in a constant war with their environment to maintain their existence, and the phenomenon of ego convinces the naive that they can pretend to be peaceful. We exist in chaos. The only true peace is at the end of it all when nothing exists.
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>>9015332
If you read up about people who have had a lasting influence in their respective field, then you'd find that many of them were deemed as being bat-shit crazy. It could range from a little illogical quirk, to an almost full-blown psychosis.

It's much easier to see the potential gains one can exhibit in their drive & skill from having some strange belief system, which usually entails a higher power that is physically manipulating their environment.

For example, Malcolm X told Ali about the Yakub story and stated how he was invincible in the boxing ring, because he was born to deal with these white devils & Uncle Toms which were designed to be pitted against their people.

Well it worked for a good while before Ali understood it was just smoke being blown up his ass.
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>>9015432
Waiting on one. It's all you.
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>>9015432
>>9015893
The similarities actually go beyond just being bald and geniuses, they both had "supermen" try to kill them
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>>9015432
>Bald
>Alexander
>Complaining about the physicists and their lies
>most famous physicists are jews
>Luther
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>>9015802
3 times wrong
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>>9016120
I'm waiting to hear about a commie state that wasn't disastrous for its people
>b-but muh brand (tm) of communism hasn't been tried yet
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>>9015684
Of course it is, you /pol/-tard.
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>>9015283
He was making an inside joke about maxwell's demon.

Judaism in western Europe is theologically identical to Yazdanism. Hence he poked fun at ibliss.

>>9015287
Most of the people in his ethnic group are dead, so he is quite easy to misunderstand.

>>9015332
Some people have a metaphysical sense of humor.

>>9015353
It has more to do with the fact that we misunderstand him, because the overwhelming majority of western european jews died in the holocaust. He has extremely few survivors to back him up.

>>9015459
Technically, the devil is an allegory for the points in human history where language became schismatic.

>>9015688
As an abstract figure, he gains when people worship an arbitrary source material instead of higher truth.

>>9015716
No, that is what sephardim and walloons look like. Note the inset cheekbones and square face.

>>9016127
He was an anarchist, not a communist, like most of the far-left in that region.
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>>9015353
>believing in alchemy is an example of newtons craziness

Are you joking? Hindsight is 20/20. The amount of chemistry knowledge needed to understand that turning X into gold is really hard is huge.
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>>9015425
tfw no anime gf

also it's nothing new for an autistic mathematician who lived his entire intellectual life in the comfort of axioms n shit to not be able to work with the grittiness physics
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>>9016248
>He was an anarchist, not a communist, like most of the far-left in that region.
Ah, so he was a laissez-faire capitalist?
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>>9016269
No, he was Anarcho-syndicalist.
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>>9016271
That's not real anarchism.
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>>9016278
Everything else is a fake
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>>9016260
Alchemy was already considered cranky in Newton's time.
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>>9015263
>>In his correspondence with Leila Schneps, he told her he would be willing to share his research into physics with her if she could answer one question: ‘What is a metre?’
Did he ask for a good answer?
That dumb cunt should have answered.
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>>9015802
>20 yo numale full of spooks
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>>9015296
Smart people bald quickly because hair can't grow on a warm surface.
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>>9017493
>science journalist
>being capable of answering anything
Alexander was based. He just told the pest to piss off in a way that went completely over her head.
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>>9017763
>Schneps
>science journalist
No.
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>>9018267
>Edited by
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haha
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>>9018630
>haha
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>>9018635
>female name after "and"
doesn't count
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>>9016269
anarchists are necessarily anti-capitalist you moron.
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>>9018832

The freer the market, the freer the people. Friendo :^)

The only true anarchists are capitalist!
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>>9018832
Do you often talk out of your ass?
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