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Graustein Professor of Mathematics Raoul Bott has a favorite story about the meandering path he took to become a mathematician. As a graduate student disillusioned by engineering, he went to the Dean of the Medical School at McGill University in Canada to see if he could become a doctor...
...dean] was a very shrewd fellow and started to interview me, and he asked what I liked to do and what I didn't like to do, and I could see that I was giving the wrong answers all the time," recalls Bott, who did not favor dissecting animals or chemistry...
Needless to say, Bott did not make a very good first impression on the dean...
...months later, Bott became a graduate student at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. He received a Ph.D in mathematics two years later in 1949, and fell in love with the field of topology after a stint at Princeton as a postdoctorate student. Bott has since become a prominent contributor in the field...
...like the fact that students initiated it," said Raoul Bott, Graustein professor of mathematics and one of the magazine's faculty advisors. "They did it on their own and it is their baby...