Where were they then?
CommentsLast updated 2014-06-27 18:04:42 SGT
When they were my age:
- Évariste Galois was two years dead, having written down most of what would later become Galois Theory in a last-minute dash the night before his fatal duel;
- Landau was doing his second year of postdoctoral exploration;
- Terry Pratchett had published his first book, as had Greg Egan;
- Keisuke Takeda was already a French chef;
- Aaron Swartz had created Markdown (which I use for this blog), authored several RFCs and created Reddit before graduating from Stanford
Meanwhile I sit around tapping out inane blog posts and gawking at their achievements.
Conclusion: I am not a clever person. I sure hope I'm a late bloomer…