24th May 2012, 02:15 PM
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Was he a brilliant mathemation or was it his paranoid schizophrenia which made him think outside of the box to come to findings that no one esle could.
That is the real question.
It was not his mathematical genius which gave me admiration, but quotations such as this which are off topic, but sheer brilliance:
Then gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation. This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.
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