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During the summer of 1975, I spent a few days with my mother and sister who were on holidays near La Baule. I had just left École Polytechnique, and needed some rest after the military service. For eight months I had been a sub-lieutenant in the 2ème RAMA, a semi-disciplinary unit based in Vernon, Eure, and felt rather depressed after what had been for me a dreadful experience. For the time being, my main concern was the starting of my research in mathematics. I had regular “night-dreams”, and also daydreams, seeing myself “content-free” as a mathematician, working hard but having no ideas—and, of course, no results.
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Tenenbaum, G. (1997). 1105: First Steps in a Mysterious Quest. In: Graham, R.L., Nešetřil, J. (eds) The Mathematics of Paul Erdös I. Algorithms and Combinatorics, vol 13. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60408-9_21
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