IlyaShpitser comments on Innate Mathematical Ability - LessWrong

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Comment author: IlyaShpitser 20 February 2015 03:32:36PM *  0 points [-]

That is a very interesting anecdote about von Neumann, if true. The man was one of a kind, and it would be interesting if the need for abstraction in this domain was not clear to him just from doing a ton of math. Maybe blindness-due-to-status ("clerical work...")