Back when I began grad school at Berkeley, the math grad students used to joke about how some of us were gooey (topology, geometry, analysis, etc.) and others were crunchy (algebra, logic, combinatorics, etc.). (I was definitely gooey. Nowadays I'm both crunchy *and* gooey.) Even if (as in the linked paper) corn-eating style is not correlated to this dichotomy, I am certain there are some correlations between personality and math preference. It would be interesting to analyze the statistics on this. —Dan Thomas Colthurst wrote: -----

From https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/01/15/kernel-of-doubt-testing-math-preferenc...

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