Apparently the jury is still out on this issue but the links below provide some encouragement:
- Terence Tao: Does one have to be a genius to do maths?
- The Cult of Genius at the Cosmic Variance blog
Update: I have just found an interesting follow-up on the Cult of Genius post, The Cult of Theory, at Chad Orzel’s blog.
Update 2: an interesting recent discussion at the Backreaction blog.
Update 3: see this post by Peter Turney and this article
Stumble!
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