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About Susan Landau |
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Susan Landau |
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In Her Own Words: Six Mathematicians Comment on Their Lives and Careers. September 1991 - American mathematician, B.A. Princeton, M.S. Cornell, Ph.D. M.I.T., position at Sun Microsystems.
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Popular Susan Landau Quotes |
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There's a touch of the priesthood in the academic world, a sense that a scholar should not be distracted by the mundane tasks of day-to-day living. I used to have great stretches of time to work. Now I have research thoughts while making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Sure it's impossible to write down ideas while reading 'curious George' to a two-year-old. On the other hand, as my husband was leaving graduate school for his first job, his thesis advisor told him, 'You may wonder how a professor gets any research done when one has to teach, advise students, serve on committees, referee papers, write letters of recommendation, interview prospective faculty. Well, I take long showers.'
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