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The Rolling Stones
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A 1952 Heinlein juvenile novel about a family of lunar colonists who buy a secondhand spaceship and roam the solar system, presided over by a sharp-tongued grandmother who believes mathematics is the key to all scientific knowledge. Whitfield Diffie names it as the earliest influence he can recall steering him toward mathematics.
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“The earliest influence I can remember is Heinlein's book The Rolling Stones in which the very influential grandmother believes mathematics is the key to at least all scientific knowledge.”
Diffie names this Heinlein juvenile novel as the earliest influence he can recall steering him toward mathematics.
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