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I read once that the true mark of a pro — at anything — is that he understands, loves, and is good at even the drudgery of his profession.

— Paul Halmos I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography (1985)

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The author discusses valueless measures in pointless spaces.

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Possibly philosophers would look on us mathematicians the same way as we look on the technicians, if they dared.

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