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The Pursuit of Beauty: Yitang Zhang solves a pure-math mystery

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Re: The Pursuit of Beauty: Yitang Zhang solves a pure-math mystery

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post #28

This author immediately made me hate him starting with the first paragraph. What was the point of that first paragraph? And I'm OK with adding some color throughout to liven up a story but I felt like this author was just wasting my time to try to show off that he's a writer. What an asshole.

That first paragraph's tl;dr was basically: I'm bad with numbers, I'm an artist, but someone told me about this math guy with an interesting story.
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