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The guy misread a Wikipedia page and you're "beyond offended" and call that "arrogant"?

> "so you're still not close"

I'm "still" not close? Still not close ... to what?




> "beyond offended"

Who exactly are you quoting here? My comment doesn't contain that phrase.

> The guy misread a Wikipedia page

I don't know how it's possible to "misread" a wiki that's all of 500 words and has things like this:

> He made fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory.

> There are three prizes named after Pólya,

> Stanford University has a Polya Hall named in his honor.

Except in so far as he was temporarily blinded by arrogance.

> I'm "still" not close? Still not close ... to what?

Still not close to any semblance of a convincing rebuke.


I am not exactly quoting anyone. So now that's settled, you can't use that as a dodge to get out of responding to the point.

> "I don't know how it's possible to "misread" a wiki"

Great, thanks for your informative contributions. Don't forget to be offended and accuse someone of ignorance and arrogance just because you don't understand. That's useful.

> "Still not close to any semblance of a convincing rebuke"

His death was still so long ago that more than half the population of Earth wasn't even born at the time.


> I am not exactly quoting anyone.

conventionally (but you're free to diverge of course) double quotes, like in

> "beyond offended"

are for quoting someone/something.


I'm being unconventional. So now that's settled, you can't use that as a dodge to get out of responding to the point.




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