[Max Raker]

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boris---

Wait, are you saying that patience/dedication + high-but-not-genius-IQ can achieve non-trivial results in math/science?

I honestly did not know this was possible. (No sarcasm.) My impression had always been that essentially all important work was done by a few transcendent geniuses. Confirm/deny?

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I remember something a math professor told us once. He said it is very hard to tell the difference between a real genius and just a really smart person who has spent alot of time on a particular subject. As an undergrad I thought all my professors where genius level but many of them where probably not that much smarter than the top 5% of students in the class. Doesn't make their achivements any less great though.