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FTA: “Some problems benefit from zooming in, others from zooming out. Grothendieck was the messiah of zooming out”

Dyson calls the mathematicians solving such problems frogs, respectively birds. https://www.ams.org/notices/200902/rtx090200212p.pdf:

“Some mathematicians are birds, others are frogs. Birds fly high in the air and survey broad vistas of mathematics out to the far horizon. They delight in con- cepts that unify our thinking and bring together diverse problems from different parts of the landscape. Frogs live in the mud below and see only the flowers that grow nearby. They delight in the details of particular objects, and they solve problems one at a time.”