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There’s this famous story in the math world of a genius—a boy born into poverty in India in 1887 and raised with no formal education in high-level mathematics, but who managed through sheer raw intelligence to solve problems that had plagued the field for years. His proofs were outstanding for their brilliance, but also for their unconventional creativity and insight, in part, it was believed, because they were not hemmed in by convention. The upshot: If you don’t know the…
