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Originally Posted by CaptainBlank  Good for him, I must say it all ways p**s me off when people talk about mathematicians being passed it at 35 or 30 or watever.
I remember being told at a job interview for a space debris tracking job that at 35 I was too old for creative work in a mathematical field(not that that job was, but what did the interveiwer know). (this was over 20 years ago now)
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Originally Posted by janvdl I thought older mathematicians would be in greater demand because of their experience. |
Sometimes yes sometimes it is not. In physics, almost all physics is a young men game. Mathematics is not necessarily always like that. There have been many who achieved a lot till the day they died. For example, Leonard Euler did his biggest contribution, when he was blind, last years of his life, solved 3 body problem, and stated quadradic reciprocity conjecture in 1783 (the year he died).