🤯 Hope you’re ok …

But who looks at h-index in math anyway?

From Yang’s commentary on the first paper in his selected works 👉🏼 books.google.com/books/about/...

“Thus it is not surprising that taste and style are so important in scientific research, as they are in literature, art, and music.”
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“But the physical universe has structure, and one's perceptions of this structure, one's partiality to some of its characteristics and aversion to others, are precisely the elements that make up one's taste.”
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“That taste and style have so much to do with one's contribution in physics may sound strange at first, since physics is supposed to deal objectively with the physical universe.”
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He said “you stupid fool” (apparently that’s the way he addressed all his students), not realizing that it would lead to a Nobel prize in Physics less than 10 years later … /4

So like every careful budding scientist, she took the readout to her PhD advisor. His first reaction? /3

In the long nights of that last year, she found a tiny anomaly: a ping of radio signals that repeated every 1.25 seconds… /2