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Are there two "types" of people in mathematics? I have heard them described as:

Intuitionists and Logicians ("Intuition and Logic in Mathematics" by Poincare)
Problem Solvers and Theory Builders ("Two Cultures of Mathematics" by Gowers)

And do you suppose there is a link between these types and platonism/formalism?

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>>9946244
this is a meme that brainlets spread. that's not how math works. if you can't do both well, you will never be a research mathematician.

>> No.9946291

>>9946244
You've listed four types, though.

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>>9946272
Why would I want to research what I've mastered? Just to rub it in one specific p-adic group's face?

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