Mathematician: I Wrote Your Textbook
My life is just like John Nash's, except I didn't go to an ivy league or merry a beautiful girl. I am crazy though. All I can say is that you better like numbers. When I was in college, my friends and I had a competition to see who could memorize the most digits that appear in pi. I was the kind of guy who didn't have to crack a book in physics in high school. It just came naturally. If you want to be a mathematician, you pretty much know it from the instant you shoot out of the womb. The ...

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