The Post-Doc Trap

After Tiananmen Square, Chinese students who until then had come mostly to the US on a J-1 visa and had to go back to China afterwards. So suddenly they were a larger number of Chinese students applying for jobs. Do you deal with such beautiful looking objects or do you turn it all into formulas and mathematics if I look at one of your papers? Formulas are beautiful. Of course they are. But they take special eyes to see the beauty. No, I have never thrown the beautiful pictures. Some of them are difficult, but they're always in my mind.