if you want to be taken seriously in technical discourse, then you need to rein in the pontification.
I don’t disagree, but I also don’t think this is correct. There are plenty of verbose mathematicians out there who spend too much time expounding on the philosophical merits of their approach, and they’re taken seriously.
I don’t disagree, but I also don’t think this is correct. There are plenty of verbose mathematicians out there who spend too much time expounding on the philosophical merits of their approach, and they’re taken seriously.
You’ll excuse me if I don’t name names, though.
Most of those are people who have already earned it a bit by having major results to their credit.