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To some extent. Many mathematical breakthroughs are not from mathematicians thinking in the office but mathematical minded people doing engineering work and bumped into big ideas. Mandelbrot was one of them, so was Alan Turing, Claude Shannon, Tony Hoare, …

They are engineers by trade, that is chasing the money as food. But money is not enough for them. So I would call them rabbits instead of foxes.