I wonder in this day and age if a mind like John Nash would have thrived. Nash had only a handful of publications, but all of them were masterpieces. Same with Riemann.
Has this problem infected mathematics to a significant degree?
I'm sure there's still unhealthy pressure to publish for grad students, but I had the impression that it was comparatively insulated from the usual patterns and receptive to rare-but-superb work.
(It's a good question, though. How would Temple Grandin or B.F. Skinner fare in psychology today?)
