A particular branch in my academic genealogy:-
Euler -> Lagrange -> Fourier -> Dirichlet -> Lipschitz -> Klein -> William Story -> Solomon Lefschetz -> Albert Tucker -> Marvin Minsky -> Manuel Blum -> Umesh Vazirani -> Sanjeev Arora -> Subhash Khot -> Preyas Popat (in the future, hopefully)
I can feel the burden on my shoulders.
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