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acoye on Oct 30, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cédric Villani: mathematician challenging to be Pa...

If politics works like it is said in "The Prince" (ie. Machiavelli), then I do not see any easily transferable skill set from renowned mathematician to politician.

Except for game theory maybe?

salamandar on Oct 30, 2019 [–]

Yeah, agreed. And he proved he's a shitty politician. (with shitty ideas too, but that's my point of view)

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