Sir Michael Atiyah at my talk in Edinburgh a few months ago. He had the audience in stitches when he said he would have loved to join in with the stripping if only he were a few years younger! He was a real gentleman, incredibly humble and down to earth and a real legend of Mathematics. R.I.P.

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Sir Michael Atiyah at my talk in Edinburgh a few months ago. He had the audience in stitches when he said he would have loved to join in with the stripping if only he were a few years younger! He was a real gentleman, incredibly humble and down to earth and a real legend of Mathematics. R.I.P.

Wow the audacity on this lad thinking that math people have aesthetics on purpose. Math people are math people lots of the time because they've been social outcasts or ugly loners their whole lives and they found out their talent for math could get them a job. They join math majors and take 4 years at uni with other social rejects and self-isolating studious colleagues and nobody tells them they dress like shit or act weird because everyone of their friends they make has equally shit taste and also equally low social skills.
You just don't like it because you probably used to do the exact same thing until someone let you in on the secret of how to read social ques

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Sir Michael Atiyah at my talk in Edinburgh a few months ago. He had the audience in stitches when he said he would have loved to join in with the stripping if only he were a few years younger! He was a real gentleman, incredibly humble and down to earth and a real legend of Mathematics. R.I.P.

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