"The work at school was really not that difficult if one applied oneself to it, but it was so uninteresting that you could not wish to apply yourself. I felt there was another mathematics. I later found that the yearning for and the satisfaction gained from mathematical inslight brings the subject near to art. While talent is undoubtedly needed by itself, it does not always make a person a mathematician. Yet most people who go into mathematics do it because they are know they are good at it. When their talent slowly declines they find themselves occasionally quite lost. This happens to some people at an early age. But what are they to do then?"
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(autobiographical essay written for the Caltech Institute Archives in 1979-80 by Olga Taussky-Todd and edited by ; quote from pages 6–7)
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Olga Taussky-Todd
(August 30, 1906 – October 7, 1995) was an Austrian, and later Czech, mathematician, who emigrated to the United States in 1947. She was elected a Fellow of the in 1986.
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