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Imagine having a president with the intellectual ability to create a novel mathematical proof, and the humility to publish it without claiming to be the greatest mathematician of all time…

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I don’t have to imagine. https://www.proquest.com/docview/301464456/

For those who can't be bothered to go a'link-clicking, the above refers Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada, which means he ministers to prime numbers living at the north pole.

That's a Prime Minister, not a president

Potato potehto.

Nice

If we had a president that could create novel mathematic proofs, I'd be happy to tolerate the arrogance at this point. At least there'd be some substance there.

I hope you would but…

The only intellectual that served as president in the last 100 years was Obama and we(1) shit all over him every day for “atrocities” such as wearing a brown suit.

(1) not me and probably not you but it was a national talking point for weeks

If you bump that up to 110 years you bring in Woodrow Wilson, one of the all-time worst presidents.

I’m curious how you came to that conclusion. While he’s certainly not in the pantheon of best presidents, he ends up around the 75th percentile in rankings by historians. Even subtracting a few spots, he’s nowhere near close to “one of the all-time worst“. Or are you faulting him for not resigning when incapacitated by a stroke?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_preside...

WWI plus all the racism, including re-segregation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson_and_race#Segreg...)

I thought that was quite a fashionable suit, and wish I could pull off wearing something like that

Never heard about the brown suit. But I heard about the drone strikes.

Peru's experience with a President with a math degree didn't go that well

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