
Alex Kontorovich on the Absolute Truth of Pure Math
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I've Defended My Thesis, Ah, That Had Never Been Published, and She Gave It to Me
She couldn't get a doctorit because of the anti semitism in former soviet rigt and so that's part of the reason we left. And she had a family to provide for, so she went into finance,. but to fill in, corant refers to the corant instias which is one of the great math institutes at anyou and in new york. She was admitted to their programme after defending her dissertation. But when i gave it to my mam a, she got a funny look on her face, and she like dug around, and she pulled out her thesis, ah, that had never been published, and she gave it to me.
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