2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
My Teachers and Studies
Authors : Daniel Alpay, Bernd Kirstein, L. A. Sakhnovich
Published in: Recent Advances in Inverse Scattering, Schur Analysis and Stochastic Processes
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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In the summer of 1949, I finally finished school. I didn’t get a medal for academic achievement, even though I was a straight A student during all my school years. Then I failed the admission exams at the University of Odessa. My mood was somber. At the same time the Department of Physics and Mathematics of the Odessa Pedagogical Institute (“PedIn”) had a shortage of enrolled students and, therefore, extended its admission period. With the thought “losers either go to a monastery or to a teaching college,” I applied there and was accepted.