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Monumental proof settles geometric Langlands conjecture

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203 points jandrewrogers | 1 comments | 26 Jul 24 17:14 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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paulpauper ◴[26 Jul 24 19:09 UTC] No.41081353[source]▶
How do people even find the time to work on this stuff without being distracted by life, family, and everything else? I think this is why so many of these people are in Europe. America is too chaotic and full of obligations and distractions to do serious academic work.
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1. xanderlewis ◴[26 Jul 24 22:36 UTC] No.41082945[source]▶
Mathematical research (as far as I know) requires significant amounts of ‘time off’ just pondering and meditating on ideas as much as it requires time sitting at a desk concentrating on a paper or working through things on paper. A lot of people have said their best work was done whilst standing waiting for a bus, in the shower, walking in the woods …and so on.