About 1951, I was a schoolboy when I blundered on Sawyer's "Mathematician's Delight" while standing outside a sidewalk bookstore in Brussels. While sounding like an exaggeration, W.W. Sawyer and my math teacher, the late Georges Van Hout (Athenee Adolphe Max), were both inspirations in making me who I am.
About 1951, I was a schoolboy when I blundered on Sawyer's "Mathematician's Delight" while standing outside a sidewalk bookstore in Brussels. While sounding like an exaggeration, W.W. Sawyer and my math teacher, the late Georges Van Hout (Athenee Adolphe Max), were both inspirations in making me who I am.