The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic by Amanda Gefter

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The Pursuit of Beauty (Yitang Zhang solves a pure-math mystery) By Alec Wilkinson

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“If you become a good calculus teacher, a school can become very dependent on you. You’re cheap and reliable, and there’s no reason to fire you. After you’ve done that a couple of years, you can do it on autopilot; you have a lot of free time to think, so long as you’re willing to live modestly. There are people who try to work nontenure jobs, of course, but usually they’re nuts and have very dysfunctional personalities and lives, and are unpleasant to deal with, because they feel disrespected. Clearly, Zhang never felt that.”