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My Grandfather: My Passion For Mathematics

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My grandfather, a professor of mathematics, used to say that my passion for mathematics started even before I was born. He believes it lays in our family’s genome. I always used to laugh at this, but I now understand what he meant. As a child I would often visit him and throw a glove to challenge him in a duel. The winner would be the first one to solve all the mathematical problems from a weekly magazine. The prize would be the famous chocolate pudding made by my grandmother and the title of the best Musketeer of that week. Looking back, he would often let me win, as this gave me the confidence to attempt more challenging questions every day. As I grew up I realized that the real competition was outside my grandfather’s walls. This competitive attitude stuck with me and has enabled me to dive first into mathematics, and then into …show more content…

The time I dedicated to prepare for mathematical competitions kept increasing, and so did my fascination with this subject. Every year, since 7th grade, I would be awarded one of the first three places in the National Olympiad and would then bring home numerous medals from international Olympiads. Being a member of our national team was a great responsibility and it taught me the importance of managing my time. As my time was limited, I learned to give 110% in everything I did. Always surrounded by problems, my ideas started shifting away from the blackboard to the real world, while searching for a more practical usage of my knowledge. I took a self-paced online course on Edx:”The Art of Structural Engineering: Bridges”. That is when I thought that maybe engineering was what my creativity was seeking for: to put formulas at work in

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