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My understanding is that that’s more about encouraging younger mathematicians rather than an expectation that older ones won’t produce anything worthy.


Sort of. It's complicated and there was politics involved. https://web.archive.org/web/20210324121533/https://www.natur...


Thanks for sharing, it's much more complicated than I believed.




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