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by technoguyrob 6634 days ago
Grothendieck, Knuth, Paul Cohen, Terence Tao, Shing-Tung Yao.

In my opinion Godel was the greatest mathematician of the 20th century, but he's dead.

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How can you possibly think that Grothendieck should be on a list of public intellectuals?