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I was at the height of my powers in the 1960’s—which may be interpreted as saying that, having reached and passed the maximum I was capable of, I was over the hill. The height of your powers takes an in stant to attain; from then on it’s down the rest of the way. I have spent all my life with one value system—research is all—and height therefore refers to theorems, or, in a better word, insights.
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Halmos, P.R. (1985). How to do almost everything. In: I Want to be a Mathematician. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1084-9_14
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