A comment going along with the joke of the article, but in a meta way. Thusly creating a meta context loop that needs to be addressed.
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I've had a few professors over my years in academia who took a similar approach to mathematics and I have to say I really benefited from it. I found that if you can do high level math with a,b,& c instead of 1,2,& 3 you can do any problem your going to run into.
I also left the story oh his Grothendieck’s prime in because I find it quite charming, the idea that this exceptional mathematician couldn't think of a prime when asked makes me feel a lot better about some of the sillier mistakes I've made over my career.