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I haven't met him personally, but Tao's writing is very humble and very kind. He talks openly about trying things and not having them work out. And he writes in general a lot about tools and their limitations. I definitely recommend reading his blog.

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I find that mathematicians tend to have the smallest egos -- eccentric as they may be. I think it's because the difficulty of mathematics reminds one of their fallibility.

In school, I typically found the math and physics teachers to be humbler than the others. Not always, but, I couldn't help but notice that trend.

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