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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.
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Alpay, D., Kirstein, B., Sakhnovich, L.A. (2015). My Teachers and Studies. In: Alpay, D., Kirstein, B. (eds) Recent Advances in Inverse Scattering, Schur Analysis and Stochastic Processes. Operator Theory: Advances and Applications(), vol 244. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10335-8_3
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