"I think he would have made a great actor. His lectures were polished: He would finish at the right moment and march off the scene. A very lively individual with many interests: music, astronomy, chemistry, history.... He loved to teach. I had a feeling that he loved to teach anybody anything. Being his student was a wonderful experience; I couldn’t have had a better start to my mathematical career. It was a remarkable accident. My favorite theorem, which I had first learned from Bell’s book, was Gauss’s law of , and there, entirely by chance, I found myself at the same university as the man who had discovered the . It was just amazing."
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Emil Artin
(March 3, 1898 – December 20, 1962) was an Austrian mathematician of Armenian descent. He is known for his research on modern , . and s.
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