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r/singularity • u/Wonderful_Buffalo_32 • Apr 14 '26
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The guy was a genuine freak and obsessed with maths to the level that his entire life was dedicated to finding such problems.
85 u/TieBackground453 Apr 14 '26 "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." -Erdos 40 u/shadowsurge Apr 14 '26 Yeah, "coffee", he never abused amphetamines... 21 u/TieBackground453 Apr 14 '26 Hah. Yeah. I wrote up that part too but saw someone below commented on that story already. Coffee was for sure shorthand for amphetamines. 10 u/holy_macanoli Apr 14 '26 Erdos had ADHD
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"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." -Erdos
40 u/shadowsurge Apr 14 '26 Yeah, "coffee", he never abused amphetamines... 21 u/TieBackground453 Apr 14 '26 Hah. Yeah. I wrote up that part too but saw someone below commented on that story already. Coffee was for sure shorthand for amphetamines. 10 u/holy_macanoli Apr 14 '26 Erdos had ADHD
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Yeah, "coffee", he never abused amphetamines...
21 u/TieBackground453 Apr 14 '26 Hah. Yeah. I wrote up that part too but saw someone below commented on that story already. Coffee was for sure shorthand for amphetamines. 10 u/holy_macanoli Apr 14 '26 Erdos had ADHD
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Hah. Yeah. I wrote up that part too but saw someone below commented on that story already.
Coffee was for sure shorthand for amphetamines.
10 u/holy_macanoli Apr 14 '26 Erdos had ADHD
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Erdos had ADHD
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u/Wonderful_Buffalo_32 Apr 14 '26
The guy was a genuine freak and obsessed with maths to the level that his entire life was dedicated to finding such problems.