alt Hacker NewsHis statement was self-deprecating (in a not so endearing way), as he was referencing his young self as one of those first-rate minds but his current old self doing exposition as second-rate.
His statement was self-deprecating (in a not so endearing way), as he was referencing his young self as one of those first-rate minds but his current old self doing exposition as second-rate.
I know that it was self-deprecating, but that doesn't redeem it much to me. I also still find it pretty contradictory/ironic because he wrote A Course of Pure Mathematics when he was in his early thirties.