JonahSinick comments on Innate Mathematical Ability - LessWrong

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Comment author: JonahSinick 18 February 2015 09:17:53PM 2 points [-]

Tao's abstract pattern recognition ability would seem to mark him as an outlier amongst mathematicians of similar accomplishment, whose relatively lower abstract pattern recognition abilities are counterbalanced by other abilities (some innate and others developed).