DRAFT: Three Intellectual Temperaments: Birds, Frogs and Beavers — LessWrong
Here is a draft of a potential top-level post which I'd welcome feedback on. I would appreciate any suggestions, corrections, additional examples, qu…
x DRAFT: Three Intellectual Temperaments: Birds, Frogs and Beavers — LessWrong Personal Blog 16 DRAFT: Three Intellectual Temperaments: Birds, Frogs and Beavers by multifoliaterose 30th Oct 2010 15 min read 32 16 Here is a draft of a potential top-level post which I'd welcome feedback on. I would appreciate any suggestions, corrections, additional examples, qualifications, or refinements. Birds, Frogs and Beavers The introduction of Birds and Frogs by Freeman Dyson reads Some mathematicians are birds, others are frogs. Birds fly high in the air and survey broad vistas of mathematics out to the
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