Why? To understand and evaluate medical and scientific research, and apply statistical knowledge to clinical practice with clarity.

But mainly, out of curiosity.

"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is." Isaac Asimov

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"I always try to be aesthetically right." Gilbert Strang

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"When I was student, I always went to his [Gerd Faltings'] lectures, and never understood anything. But I must say that, looking back at this, I learned so much from these lectures." Peter Scholze

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"The mathematicians estimate money in proportion to its quantity, and men of good sense in proportion to the usage that they may make of it." Gabriel Cramer

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"Si de algo soy rico es de perplejidades y no de certezas." Jorge Luis Borges