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Basil Gordon had awakened me. I had been dangerously adrift at UCLA, and his mentoring coaxed me back into the life I was meant to lead. Like Ramanujan, I had developed an addiction for mathematics. I was in love with mathematical beauty. I had a passion for doing mathematics. Yet I had no idea how things might turn out for me professionally. Desire does not always lead to fulfillment. Would my theorems be good enough for anyone to care about? Might I have a thesis in me but not much else?
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Ono, K., Aczel, A.D. (2016). Hitting Bottom. In: My Search for Ramanujan. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25568-2_27
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