IlyaShpitser comments on Examples in Mathematics - Less Wrong

14 Post author: kgalias 14 December 2013 10:15PM

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Comment author: IlyaShpitser 15 December 2013 11:16:35AM *  9 points [-]

I suspect Groethendieck was an alien.

For myself, I agree with Scott, I run into trouble without a ton of examples. You eventually get a feel for when the list of examples is "good enough" for the general case.

Comment author: chaosmage 16 December 2013 12:21:22PM *  2 points [-]

Was? He's (probably) alive, if hard to find.

Comment author: pinyaka 16 December 2013 02:36:15PM 2 points [-]

We gave him honorary Terran status in 1957.