The Importance of Geometric Measure Theory in Mathematics

A lot of people I've spoken to for these podcasts, as they come towards the end, start developing their own specializations. They might be influenced by certain lecturers to think this is where I want to go. Because you were so self-taught during your undergraduate, were you able to do that? Did you finish your undergraduate with the particular niches you wanted to move into in the mathematical world?I thought so. And it was because there was one book that I had read that was, now there were two books that were more advanced than the others. But very soon after I realized, oh, no, that's not it.