My real speciality is the mathematical analysis of Hilbert Space operators. But this was no time to come on like an ivory-tower idealist. (Rudy Rucker)

My real speciality is the mathematical analysis of Hilbert Space operators. But this was no time to come on like an ivory-tower idealist.

Rudy Rucker

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