Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.
My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill.
During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry.
My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem.
