Professors have a strange form of immortality: an idea passed down 40 years, source forgotten
prof_kamilov · x · 2026-09-07
A professor reflects on academia's peculiar immortality: you explain an idea to a student, who explains it to theirs, and 40 years later someone somewhere says "there's a simple way to think about this" — with no one remembering where it came from.
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