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by xg 4292 days ago
I love that this story is trending on Hacker News. The author, Paul Hoffman, is a close friend.

It's nice when good work gets rediscovered here.

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Thank your friend for writing a wonderful biography about a beautiful soul. That book really opened up the world for me by introducing me to a lot of the history and ideas. I'd dropped out of school many years ago and never learned Calculus. After that book, I was inspired to take evening classes and finally learn calculus. As it turned out, I needed to take a few refresher classes before I got to calculus, but I did and I finished up to calc 3. I've been meaning to go back and do some linear algebra and differential equations... Hopefully, I will go back soon.

Tell your friend he's doing the SF's work. Then again, maybe he's doing the devil's work if the SF is bent on keeping all the good theorems to himself.