Excellent- I’d actually assumed you had grown up in the English-speaking world and that you just happened to have an Eastern European teacher for some reason, even though that’s a much less likely way for it to happen. Still, it’s nice to see I can trust my instincts about the national character of particular mathematical eccentricities- something about the style of the example reminded me strongly of Erdős (except for the personal irony it would have had for him).
Excellent- I’d actually assumed you had grown up in the English-speaking world and that you just happened to have an Eastern European teacher for some reason, even though that’s a much less likely way for it to happen. Still, it’s nice to see I can trust my instincts about the national character of particular mathematical eccentricities- something about the style of the example reminded me strongly of Erdős (except for the personal irony it would have had for him).