The Hierarchical World of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
The world of mathematics and theoretical physics is hierarchical. That was my first exposure to it. There's a limit beyond which one cannot progress. The differences between the limiting abilities of those on successively higher steps of the pyramid are enormous. I have not seen described anywhere the shock a talented man experiences when he finds, late in his academic life, that there are others enormously more talented than he. I have personally seen more tears shed by grown men and women over this discovery than I would have believed possible. Most of those men and women shift to fields where they can compete on more equal terms.
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The difference in talent between individuals is enormous, and shocking to those who discover others are vastly more talented than they.
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Alvarez: Adventures of a Physicist (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Series)