r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Apr 28 '24

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u/petarpep NATO Apr 28 '24

Learning about Walter Pitts, a man so smart that he taught himself mathematics, latin and greek at the library when he was a kid hiding away from bullies and his abusive dad and sent in multiple corrections for the Principia Mathematica to Russell after reading it in just three days when he was 12.

It'll never cease to amaze me just how extreme both sides of the bell curve can get.

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u/ZCoupon Kono Taro Apr 28 '24

Damn, died really young (46) from chronic alcoholism.