Comment by ParsiZad on Vanity and Ambition in Mathematics · 2013-11-21T23:56:14.224Z · LW · GW

Mathematicians are like everyone else, a human, susceptible to the common people tendencies, unless there is 'something' in mathematical thinking that would put them into a different category, more human (the definition of to be a human even if in the strict sense of mathematical rigor would fail, wouldn't it?) or less human ( (a thinking machine).