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@QiaochuYuan 在Quora上的回答:
One day I woke up as if from a dream, and the following thought hit me: even if I solved my thesis problem, maybe 4 people in the world would be prepared to understand what I had done, let alone care about it.
And I asked myself, “is this what I want to spend my life doing? My short, precious life on this planet, which is filled with so much pain but also so much love, and which I have only begun to explore and understand?”
And I found that my answer was no. Seems like he got depressed about his lackluster dating life and it probably made him not care about math anymore based on his tweets from a while back (twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/status/1224750631358889984). But honestly I'd have to agree that it's not worth being a top mathematician if it means you have to be single for the rest of your life. |
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