"He possessed an enormous capacity for work - up to 12 or more hours a day. ... He worked to completely rigorous rules. We were once 'working' together in Cambridge, and started immediately after breakfast. I presently said: excuse me for a minute or two. 'Two minutes 47 seconds.' ... He was completely non-musical (as were Klein and Hardy). ... When G. H. Hardy wrote after the First World War to the effect that he had not been a fanatical anti-German, and felt confident that Landau would wish to resume former relations, Landau replied: 'As a matter of fact my opinions were much the same as yours, with trivial changes of sign.'"
Edmund Landau

January 1, 1970

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