What does it take to be [a mathematician]? I think I know the answer: you have to be born right, you must continually strive to become perfect, you must love mathematics more than anything else, you must work at it hard and without stop, and you must never give up.

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

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