And to top it all off, this Mathematician was in his late fifties when he published his breakthrough proof!
One of the times it was specifically brought up in reference to a known mathematician. The takeaway being that getting in a relationship, or even married, automatically disqualifies you from achieving anything of great importance in the future....made me pretty sad that it's such a common pattern of thought.
But then, I started my family early. I didn't have much of an established pattern of productivity before. So my baseline comparison may be way off.
As Hume would point out, is is not ought.
[1] http://www.jrhenry.net/johnrhenry/erdos.htm [2] http://www.nndb.com/people/401/000032305/