(January 2, 2022 at 3:15 pm)polymath257 Wrote:(January 2, 2022 at 12:45 pm)GrandizerII Wrote: What has been your greatest personal challenge in this field? And greatest personal achievement.
Biggest personal challenge: that I am not as intelligent and creative as I would like to be.
Greatest personal achievement: applying algebraic topology to a question in measure theory. The two subjects are quite far apart and to find a connection was quite a trip.
As an undergraduate, I had a love (and still do) of mathematics & physics, and had contemplated going to graduate school, but, (somewhat) sadly was forced to conclude that my principle (and, likely, only) accomplishment as a graduate student would have been to have made the top half of my graduating class possible.
And, so, after graduating, I went into industry and bought a car, a Z24.