James Mishra

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Doob was a fierce critic of anything he regarded as flabby thinking. Doob was open about the fact that he was, perhaps too frequently, looking for trouble. Asked why he became interested in mathematics in the first place, he answered: I have always wanted to understand what I was doing, and why I was doing it, and I have often been a pest because I have objected when what I heard or read was not to be taken literally. The boy who noticed that the emperor wasn’t dressed and objected loudly has always been my model. Mathematics seemed to match my psychology, a mistake reflecting the fact that ...more
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