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"I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto."
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"I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way."
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"The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself."
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"I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about."
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"My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one."
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"In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics."
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"I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto."
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"Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve."
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"Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions."
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"Few rounds.... I am damn good mathematician!2 999 999 999 999 999 999 + 11 999 999 999 999 999 999 = 14 999 999 999 999 999 998."
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"I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account."
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"Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron."
Physics
"I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto."
Mathematics
"During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes."
Company
"My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed semiconductor devices for applications in outer space."
Project
"In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had been previously presumed."
Energy
"However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II."
War
"My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist."
War
"I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view."
Family
"My commitment to a humane and peaceful world continues to this day."
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"I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective."
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