&gt;Wow. You must love recursion. I like to discuss, but please make specific points. Like I did above.<p>I made points, a number of them, not sure what you&#x27;re saying here? And how is it recursive? I am responding to you, that&#x27;s how discussions work.<p>You were the one to talk about these kind of comments being disingenuous, I was both parodying that and wondering whether you are in fact being so yourself - it seems fashionable to &#x27;go against the grain&#x27;, I was openly wondering if that&#x27;s what you were doing.<p>If you read the article he repeatedly interrupts the story to make comments about his products and how wonderful they are, in fact he talks as if they are the only means of doing mathematics in software available.<p>I cannot be bothered to pull down all the quotes and make this line-by-line because it&#x27;s a waste of everybody&#x27;s time, if you didn&#x27;t find it jarring&#x2F;interrupting then I envy you, and fine we can agree to disagree on subjective grounds. I do not at all find them subtle and in line with the article&#x27;s text, so I disagree entirely with you on that.<p>I hate the &#x27;he is entitled to&#x27; arguments - and? Yes he is entitled, he is entitled to write anything, what does it matter? I and others who read a really interesting piece about a historical figure interjected with what _we_ find to be jarring product placement are entitled to comment on it, and I am also entitled to disagree with you about how incredibly tiresome and &#x27;disingenuous&#x27; these comments are.<p>I don&#x27;t disagree the article wasn&#x27;t good, in fact I&#x27;ve said about 3 times now I find it excellent apart from this aspect, so that whole bit about how wonderful it is is totally irrelevant...<p>To finish (because this discussion is becoming... tiresome), let me correct your straw-manning of me - I actually didn&#x27;t come in to it with a known image of him as a self-aggrandising bullshitter. I read this with an open mind because I find Ramunjan fascinating, having heard about him 15 years ago when I was hoping I could pursue mathematics as a career (before events out of my control screwed that up.)<p>I put aside my &#x27;prior image&#x27; of him for more than a minute, as I didn&#x27;t maintain one to start with... be careful of these kind of assumptions, it&#x27;s probably part of why you find these kind of comments so frustrating!<p>I didn&#x27;t care it was Wolfram, but as I read the whole article, I found these things jarring and just sad, since the piece is otherwise excellent and well written. Ah well.