> I think the intuition is that the best mathematicians, autistic or not, tend to be in academia already.
Is that a safe assumption, though? Won't it limit the field to people who are happy making a low salary and don't mind teaching?
Is that a safe assumption, though? Won't it limit the field to people who are happy making a low salary and don't mind teaching?
The field simply has far less low hanging fruit than it did a century, or even a half-century ago. It's not reasonable to expect that a lone genius with little to no academic background in mathematics could resolve a famous open problem through sheer creativity. For literally generations the field's most intelligent researchers have spent their careers chipping away at this problem.