Comment by grandpajoey
8 hours ago
If you're not from the culture in question, then these are just additional barriers to entry because you have a lot of extra stuff to learn, completely unrelated to your task at hand. It also puts you at a disadvantage to native members of the culture.
> They are a way of celebrating and honoring the human reach for excellence. If you like humans, that's a good thing.
I think progress is inevitable, ideas build on each other, and those with access to capital get to slap their name on their moment in time (yes, even if they did the hard work of converting that capital to progress). If AI takes over math, I really don't think we'll see a slow down in technological progress. Quite likely the opposite.
I don't think you can lay naming at the feet of capital. Euclid, Ramanujan, Galois, Poncelet.. The list goes on. The Marxist lens is feeble.
If you’re not hunting to survive (and even then), you have access to capital. The time to study math is, and always has been, paid for by someone, some way.
We shouldn't forget the sun either. Without the sun none of us would be here.