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    1. This is a great story, and I am genuinely happy for this guy In the meantime, his parents are university professors and he was mentored by a Medal Fields winner He may have a peculiar (and impressive) trajectory, but I wouldn’t call him an underdog quantamagazine.org/a-path-less-taken-to-the-peak-of-the-math-world-20170627/
  1. …in reply to @simardcasanova
    "A path less taken" for many of us would be to offer a similar path to, let’s stay, a black lesbian raised in a poor neighborhood. A gay latino whose parents were immigrants. A single mom of two. And so on. Sadly, we’re not quite there yet.