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Srinivasa Ramanujan. He does not figure that much in my work right now. But studying his notebooks (via Bruce Berndt's studies) when I was a teenager taught me how to appreciate beautiful mathematics. From that moment on, I was hooked. I knew I had to be a mathematician.

As for those whose lives or personalities inspired me, or whose style of thinking influenced my methodology, too many to count...