[OldGuyInTheClub]

> Conway and Tao are widely considered outside the "roadkill" category of mathematicians.

Ah, but they didn't really /need/ Polya's book.

[travisjungroth]

This “need” standard doesn’t seem useful. You could say they don’t need anything besides air, water, food and shelter.

[kgwgk]

Come on, you don't really /need/ shelter.