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Until the age of eight, Bott was educated by governesses in arithmetic, German and English at his Hungarian-speaking home. When he became eight, Bott says he was unhappily sent off to elementary school. School was not his forte, as he write in his memoirs...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mathematics Professor Recounts Wartime Coming-of-Age | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

Until he discovered his love for mathematics, his attitude toward school continued to be indifferent. As a teenage refugee from Hitler, and then as a transient English boarding school student, Bott recalls shingling stables and pursuing his interest in electrical fuses more than attending classes...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mathematics Professor Recounts Wartime Coming-of-Age | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...Bott received his first rigorous education when he arrived in Canada for a year of high school after skipping two years and being elevated to his senior year for answering a trick mathematics question correctly. But only after graduating as an electrical engineer from McGill University would his talent in mathematics come to the forefront...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mathematics Professor Recounts Wartime Coming-of-Age | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

Samit Dasgupta '99, who as a first year took Bott's introductory topology class and is currently taking Bott's differential geometry class, says he believes Bott is preoccupied with large issues as opposed to the details...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mathematics Professor Recounts Wartime Coming-of-Age | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...Biss, it seems that Bott's teaching style reflects the emphasis on freedom that he loved as a student...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mathematics Professor Recounts Wartime Coming-of-Age | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

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