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It was not so much that I was doing mathematics, but rather that mathematics had taken possession of me.

Stanislaw Ulam
Taken, Mathematics, Possession
"Adventures of a Mathematician" by Stanislaw Ulam, Third Edition, (p. 52), 1991.
It was not so much that I was doing mathematics, but rather that mathematics had taken possession of me.