Beginning from a few intuitive postulates, far reaching consequences could be derived, and I took immediately to the sport of proving theorems.
I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.
Despite the importance of education in our family, my life was not completely centered around school work or recreational reading.
There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public school system.
I joined Bell Laboratories in the fall of 1978. I was one of roughly two dozen brash, young scientists that were hired within a two year period.