in thread "Are aesthetics really primary when seeking converts?": While I was never tempted to pursue mathematics as a career, I've spent a great deal of my life obsessed both with abstruse branches of applied math and with muscular political aesthetics of the neo-hellenic "uniformed mannerbund" type. A data point for yo... 1y ago (collapse hidden) retry 3 3 While I was never te (view hidden) retry 3 3