Danger Quote by Timothy Gowers

“Moreover, if one selects a problem, works on it in isolation for a few years and finally solves it, there is a danger, unless the problem is very famous, that it will no longer be regarded as all that significant.”

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Here is something Category-Theorists like: it is trivial, but not trivially trivial.

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