/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9045538
It is true. I didn't say that looks alone matter, only that looks matter too, so all else equal, a handsome mathematician is a better mathematician. A healthy mathematician with a beautiful face can more easily build rapport with others and collaborate to achieve results that an ugly mathematician with the same intellectual potential is secluded from by virtue of his unappealing features.

Remember how they said Grothendieck had this charisma about him? It was staring everyone in the face: he was handsome! Pic related, Grothendieck's manly, smug, symmetrical mug.

>In a mathematical conversation, someone suggested to Grothendieck that they should consider a particular prime number. “You mean an actual number?” Grothendieck asked. The other person replied, yes, an actual prime number. Grothendieck suggested, “All right, take 57.”