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Also, consider this - nowadays fewer and fewer academicians achieve groundbreaking results in their young age. It's more common for people to study 30+ years before they really contribute something important to science. Often it is because one has to study huge amount of previous results to come up with something new and validated. This time-to-result is likely going to increase in the future. Either we manage to continuously prolong lifespan while keeping brain elastic or we would have to make serious changes to the underlying math to keep math still rigorous, correct but more accessible to the way human brain operates, otherwise there won't be anyone living long enough to come with new results.