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it is difficult to contact the noble circle of math monks directly

if you are worthy, they will usually contact you

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I've been thinking of becoming a reclusive, living only for studying, I might even build my own monastery so others like me can gather to study in peace and live among their equals.

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something about the phrase "math monk" cracks me up every time

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this is getting out of hand

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How to become a math monk?

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he's right, you know that?

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from Grothendiecks autobio, when he writes about autonomous research, something to the effect of

>as babies we know instinctivley to drink from mother's breast... adults are more inhibited, they walk past opportunities...

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http://www.ams.org/journals/bull/2001-38-04/S0273-0979-01-00913-2/home.html
>He withdrew more and more into his own tent. After 1993 he no longer had a postal address and settled in a hamlet in the Pyrenees. Very few managed to see him there. If I can believe his most recent visitors, he is obsessed with the Devil, whom he sees at work everywhere in the world, destroying the divine harmony and replacing 300,000 km/sec by 299,887 km/sec as the speed of light!
does /sci/ know more about this?

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