Taleb celebrates the amateur Danish mathematician, Johan Jensen (an engineer for the Copenhagen Telephone Company who never held an academic position), in a footnote to a passage in which he provides a copious list of English parish priests who made significant contributions to knowledge. Ministers like Malthus, Bayes, and Jack Russell (who, yes, bred t…
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