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The Codebreakers
“I was reading very slowly through David Kahn's comparable-length book about cryptography… At any event, in fall of '72, I began studying Kahn.”
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Men of Mathematics
“I learned half of the mathematics I know by the time I entered MIT… most of my source was Men of Mathematics… Roughly speaking, I developed a vision of being a 19th-century academic mathematician.”
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A Course of Pure Mathematics
“But the book that I studied hardest was Hardy's Course of Pure Mathematics. So I came into MIT knowing a good deal of analysis.”
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The Rolling Stones
“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.”