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30 Post author: paulfchristiano 25 February 2011 06:06PM

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Comment author: paulfchristiano 26 February 2011 02:31:17AM 5 points [-]

Paul, have you tried to reverse engineer why your brain made you become interested in doing pure math in the first place?

No. I seem to have been interested in math since I started developing reliable memories. Most of the things I did back then don't make any sense to me now.

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