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Books/websites which have motivating stories of mathematicians overcoming hardships in life
A good overview (including several mathematicians with an unusual background) is compiled by Nassim Nicholas Taleb at Bookauthority. Even without buying the books, the list may give you pointers to ro …
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Why did Euler consider the zeta function?
This history is described in Euler and the Zeta Function by Raymond Ayoub (1974). In his early twenties, around 1730, Euler considered the celebrated problem to calculate the sum $$\zeta(2)=\sum_{n=1} …
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