There is a lesson to be learned here for everybody thinking that competition and the typical academic grind are good for creative processes such as research.

"One morning last November, the mathematician Hector Pasten(opens a new tab) finally solved the problem that had been dogging him for more than a decade by using a time-tested productivity hack: procrastination."

#mathematics #primes
https://www.quantamagazine.org/big-advance-on-simple-sounding-math-problem-was-a-century-in-the-making-20241014/